Helicopter ride for Mumbai widows on Women's Day

A group of widows from Mumbai and surrounding areas will be treated to a free helicopter ride on Tuesday, the International Women’s Day.

Shivshakti Women’s Association, which has been organising events in a unique way to mark the International Women’s Day for past 18 years, in association with India Media Links and Event Management, has chosen to honour widows hailing from simple and ordinary families who have raised their children against all odds in the absence of their husbands.

Between 11am and 2pm on Tuesday, the widows



will be taken in turns for the helicopter ride covering all of Mumbai, said Panchasheel Shirsat, one of the organisers.

“This year we decided to honour widows who have toiled hard to raise their children making them doctors, engineers and other professionals. Till now we have received names of more than 21 such women from Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai,” Shirsat said.

Among those who will be taken for the helicopter ride include Satyavatibai, Vatsalabai, Shardabai and Panchfulabai -from Mumbai and surrounding areas.