Raffles Equity Sponsors School Supplies for Children Charity Event with ECFI

BANGALORE, INDIA, July 14, 2011 (Press-News.org) Raffles Equity Research, Inc, a leading equity markets and stock research house in India and the ASEAN Region, in cooperation with the Expats' Charities Fund, Inc. sponsored the "School Supplies for Children" project for the Bangalore Association of Public Schools Administrators. On Friday, June 3, 2011, around 600 school children received much needed school supplies like writing materials, notebooks and art materials, for the upcoming start of the school year 2011. ECFI, through Raffles generosity, also left more than a two hundred school supplies packs with school administrations led by each participating School Head Teacher. The remaining packs will be distributed to other enrollees when regular classes start.

The Charity event was mainly sponsored by Raffles Equity together with contributions from some of the other local businesses and friends of ELFI members.

"True to its slogan, "Crossing cultures to make lives better", Expats' Charities Fund, Inc. will always look forward for every opportunity whereby the contribution of our foreigners, may it be an individual or a company, bring BIG smiles on those little faces as gift packs were handed to them by the happy and cheerful faces of our ECFI ladies." Joann Amsley, local chapter chairwoman said, "We wish to thank Raffles Equity for their dedicated efforts in making the event a success.

Raffles is instrumental in formulating Asset Management strategies for some of the most well known investment funds; mutual funds, pension funds and hedge funds on both a consulting and proprietary trading basis.