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Company comes to the help of poor children

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, May 3. A pizza company has shown its "corporate social responsibility" by issuing poor children cheques for Rs. 1 lakh.

The company, Pizza Corner, said on Saturday that it gave a cheque for Rs. 1 lakh to Shankar, a street child staying with Bosco Yuvakendra, an NGO. Shankar said he would invest half the money in fixed deposit and study further.

When the pizzeria opened its first store on Brigade Road in 1998, 20 street children from Bosco became part of a "Food for Good" programme. A part of every sale of pizza at any Pizza Corner outlet in the country is supposed to go into this project.

The other Bosco children are to get Rs. 1 lakh on completing class 10 or 18 years of age.

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