Hyderabad, October 12: The NTR Memorial Trust is helping flood victims rebuild their lives. As part of its flood relief work, the trust has decided to extend financial help to a physically-challenged person in Kurnool to set up a pan shop. The physically challenged person has lost everything in the recent floods that ravaged Kurnool city.
The NTR Memorial Trust, of which TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu is the managing trustee, will also hand over Rs 20,000 to 77-year-old Papamma in Mantralayam. During his recent visit to Mantralayam, Naidu assured Papamma that the trust would extend financial help to her. The trust has also decided to help Ganesha Chary in Mantralayam, who lost all valuables like gold and cash meant for his daughter’s marriage on October 28. The trust has decided to see that the marriage is performed.
The trust would give money required for the marriage. In a press release issued here today, Trust CEO P Raghurama Rao urged philanthropists to donate liberally to the trust to perform the marriage.
The trust started donating clothes on Sunday in Kurnool city. All the affected families will be provided clothes by the trust. Its representatives were visiting every house affected in the floods, the release said.
The trust today received donations to the tune of Rs 15 lakh. As many as 58 medical teams sponsored by the trust are working in the flood-hit areas. So far the trust has extended help to 1.7 lakh victims.
–Agencies