Fashion show held in city to raise funds for medical mission
City Desk :
A fashion event was organized under the first ever Blue Wrap Project Runway, Bangladesh chapter in the city to raise funds for the purpose of medical mission.
Rotary Club of Dhaka Pathfinders in unique partnership with Partners for World Health (PWH) took the Blue Wrap Project Runway initiative and organized the event at a city center on the eighth instant, said a press release.
Distinguished guests, including seven ambassadors of different countries in Dhaka, joined the exclusive fund-raiser fashion show, it said, reports BSS.
Over the last six years, for the medical mission, the club along with PWH, has been carrying out breast cancer awareness workshops, primary health-checkups at Korail Slum in the city and Kandapara Brothel in Tangail, training for nurses at Tangail General Hospital and Tangail Nurse’s Institute, special training for nurses and patient-family members on Palliative Care at National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH) and Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
This year, through the medical mission, over 500 less-privileged people have received primary health-check-up while more than 700 nurses will be given training.
As the scale of this noble initiative grows every year, the Dhaka Pathfinders has joined hands with renowned international fashion designer Bibi Russell towards creating a mesmerizing event named ‘Blue Wrap Project Runway’ to raise funds.
Bibi Russell presented a collection of sustainable designs for the evening, where supermodel Noyonika Chatterjee walked the ramp as the showstopper.
The show opens with the first queue designed with discarded Surgical Blue polypropylene with an aim to reduce surgical wastes.
Bibi Russell created a unique fashion transforming from surgical waste into ready to wear designs.
The next four queues show-cased Bibi Russell’s “Threads of life” collections with 100 percent natural, sustainable, hand-woven cotton and jamdani dresses.
