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‘Giving a dignified funeral is a noble act’
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Annam Seva Foundation so far conducted funerals of around 200 COVID-19 victims
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Annam Seva Foundation so far conducted funerals of around 200 COVID-19 victims
Amid the COVID-19 gloom, volunteers of the town-based Annam Seva Foundation turned Good Samaritans for grieving families of two COVID-19 victims by performing their final rites in Hyderabad on Tuesday, where the latter succumbed to COVID-19 at separate hospitals in the wee hours of the day.
The pandemic robbed the two bereaved families of Khammam town a chance to conduct the funeral of the deceased (two elderly women) in their hometown as some immediate family members of the deceased were home quarantined, sources said.
Mentally ill woman from UP reunited with family
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ASP Veenit, Paralegal Volenteer intract with UP woman at Bhadra ham.
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A mentally ill woman from Uttar Pradesh was reunited with her family after several years in the temple town of Bhadrachalam on Friday.
The elderly woman, who had gone missing from her home in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district around two decades ago due to suspected mental health disorder, was found wandering on the streets of Bhadrachalam by some local residents nearly one-and-a-half year ago.
Alerted by them, the Khammam-based Annam Seva Foundation chairman and para-legal volunteer Annam Srinivasa Rao shifted her to the shelter home for destitute persons in Khammam in December 2019.
KHAMMAM: With rising
Covid-19 cases, one can see reports of mass cremations without following any customs. However, a Khammam-based NGO is carrying out the final rites of people, who died of Covid-19, in a dignified manner. Spearheading this initiative are three women, Tailam Saraswathi, P Eswaramma and Battula Devisree, who are members of Annam Seva Foundation (ASF). However, it is to be noted that Devisree is only 16 and studying in Intermediate. At a time when gender roles are being shattered, Devisree too has entered into a male-dominated domain at such a tender age. Apart from conducting the final rites for Covid-19 casualties, she also does the same for abandoned or unidentified bodies.
Award for social worker
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The town-based social worker and para-legal volunteer Annam Srinivasa Rao has been selected for Global Peace Prize-2021 instituted by Indore-based World Book of Star Records in recognition of his distinguished services to destitute and mentally-challenged persons.
The award will be presented to Mr Rao at the World Peace Conference slated to be held in Srinagar on April 18, according to sources in the town-based Annam Seva Foundation, an NGO.
Mr Rao, the founder of the Annam Seva Foundation, has received wide appreciation from various quarters for his consistent acts of compassion, including shifting road accident victims to hospitals and performing the last rites of COVID-19 victims in compliance with safety norms.