Click to play videoKolkata: The residents of Lakkhikantopur, a village two hours away from Kolkata, have never heard of a woman called Audrey Hepburn.
But they know a man called Dominique Dadu (Dominique Lapierre), someone who always brings them things they could never dream of.
This time it’s 15 primary schools spread across West Bengal. One of which is in this village.
The villagers consider themselves lucky, but writer Dominique Lapierre whose NGO City of Joy Aid got the proceeds from the auction of Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn's famous black Givenchy dress that she wore in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's thinks he is luckier.
"I am very happy that this dress came from a woman who spent the last years of her life in South America, in Africa and in Bangladesh as a UNICEF ambassador and served children. And her beautiful action continues through me and my wife,” says Lapierre.
The dress handed over to Lappiere by its designer and Hepburn's friend Hubert de Givenchy went up for auction at Christies in December last year. The dress fetched a staggering 467,200 pounds, the second highest bid for a dress used in a film.
And Hepburn's little black dress has now given these little ones and their parents in India a reason to smile.
"These schools will help our children, that's why we are very happy,” says a villager, Minoti Gayen.
Seven out of the 15 primary education institutions have already been constructed, and all 15 are expected to be operational in the next three months. When that happens about 1,500 rural children will be given education.
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