Support pouring in for orphaned girls

Vizianagaram: In response to a report appeared in these columns, Sri Ravi Swarajyam Memorial Trust chairman Ravi Sridhar, who was moved at the plight of the orphaned girls in Gangachollapenta, has come to the rescue of the three girls and extended a helping hand to the family in distress.

It may be recalled that the girls lost parents on a single day to jaundice. While the mother died undergoing treatment in the Government Hospital here, the father succumbed to the disease at a private hospital in Visakhapatnam. The eldest of the daughters had to borrow Rs 40,000 from others to get the father’s body released from hospital.

As promised, Sridhar contributed Rs 5,000 to the family sponsoring the monthly expenses. He assured it to give the same amount every month. Following the example, former sarpanch of the village Bangaru Naidu declared one-time financial support of Rs 5,000 to the family.

Sridhar got an iron-grilled door installed to their dilapidated house as a measure of security besides getting repairs done spending Rs 20,000. He commissioned a mason to build toilets in the house.

Asking the children not to be perturbed at by the personal loss, he encouraged them to study up to any extent and offered to bear the total cost of their education.

Vice-MPP Polinaidu said that he would speak on Monday to the headmaster of the Government school, from which the second daughter Lakshmi had dropped out to support her bread-winner elder sister, who is shouldering the family responsibility since the death of the parents, for her readmission.

Upon losing the parents, taking care of two younger sisters and the aged grandparents fell on the eldest girl’s shoulders to support the family.