Bhadrachalam: JD Foundation rises to the occasion

JD Foundation has been distributing food, vegetables and groceries to the poor besides providing oxygen cylinders and concentrators to Covid patients

Bhadrachalam: Members of JD Foundation are reaching out to the needy and those affected by Covid-19 in Bhadrachalam and other places in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district.

With the help of philanthropists, they have been distributing food, vegetables and groceries to the poor and private teachers besides providing oxygen cylinders and concentrators to Covid patients.

“In Bhadrachalam, JD Foundation is the first to understand the importance of an oxygen bank and has set up one with three cylinders and two oxygen concentrators,” said the foundation’s erstwhile Khammam convener K Murali Mohan Kumar.

The oxygen cylinders and concentrators, donated by NRIs and local philanthropists, are being sent to the needy patients round the clock upon a request on the phone. Similarly, the foundation has distributed around 550 masks, 25 litres of sanitiser liquid and sanitiser stands to the staff at Manuguru TSRTC bus depot, Mohan Kumar told ‘Telangana Today’ on Monday.

Among several others, private school teachers are the most affected due to the pandemic, and to help them, essential commodities required for a month were distributed to them in the temple town. Likewise, vegetables were distributed to around 200 poor families at AMC Colony on Monday at their doorstep. For the past one month, JD Foundation members had been engaged in the distribution of free meals to beggars and migrant labourers around Bhadrachalam, said foundation member K Nagaraju.

NRIs Nidamanuru Srinivas Rao, Akunuri Ramana Rao, G Raghu and his wife Sirisha, local Chamber of Commerce secretary K Suresh Kumar, philanthropist Ch Nageshwar Rao and family members of late Janga Mahalakshmi have extended support to the foundation, Mohan Kumar said, thanking their generous contribution.

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