The initiative can help individuals adopt a village, support a farmer, support a farm widow, support an NGO or technology-based solutions, and much more.
Though holding a crucial position at a company and managing his social initiatives simultaneously is a challenge, but Suresh manages to do it with perfection.
Nana Patekar takes up the cause of farmer suicides
Nna Patekar has offered financial assistance to farmers who are on the brink of committing suicide. According to a report on Indiatoday.in, as a part of this initiative, Nana has donated Rs 15000 each to families of 62 Vidarbha farmers who had committed suicide.
Nana has reportedly visited around 112 farmers' widows in the Marathwada region so far and now plans to connect with 700 more in the areas of Nagpur, Latur, Hingoli, Parbani, Nanded, Aurangabad, Usmanabad, Jalna, Bhusawal, Jalgaon, etc. However, the actor is extremely humble about his charitable act.
Apart from helping the farmers, he has also offered to help farmers who are contemplating suicide as an option to get rid of their worries. He is apparently also trying to initiate a dialogue with the government to urge them to take up the issue.
Well Done! Akshay Kumar raises funds for 100 farmer families
Akshay who has always been supporting families of farmers since many years decided to raise funds for grieve stricken farmer families and requested other people present there to donate funds. Within 15 mins a huge sum was collected for the 100 farmer families.
Telangana Sportstars Come Forward to Help Farmers' Families
Responding to an appeal by the state government to all sections of the society to come to the rescue of farmers' families, tennis ace Sania Mirza, top shuttler Jwala Gutta and cricketer Pragyan Ojha declared their support.
Sania is the brand ambassador of the newly-created state.Her mother Naseema Mirza presented a cheque of Rs.3 lakh to MP K. Kavita, daughter of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.
"Agriculture and farmers are core of our country. Whatever crisis the state is facing be it farmers's suicides or an earthquake, we have to come forward to help the people," said Naseema.
Jwala, who presented a cheque of Rs.1 lakh, said it was the duty of every citizen whether they are celebrities or a common people to come forward to help the farmers. "We need to come forward and do whatever we can," she said.
Ojha said since farmers are backbone of the country, he decided to join the effort without second thought. He assured all support to the effort to help the families of farmers.
Kavita, who is also heading cultural organisation Telangana Jagruthi, said the NRIs wing and others had come forward to adopt 70 families of the farmers.
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The Telugu Daily, Andhra Jyothy (www.andhrajyothy.com) has started Andhra Jyothy – ABN Relief Fund for helping the berieved families of farmers in Telangana. The newspaper and ABN channel have come forward with an initial fund of Rs. 20 lakhs and inviting the general public, industrialists, employees, leaders and all other people from all walks of life to generously donate for the welfare of the families of farmers who have committed suicide in Telangana.
Following are the account details to send money directly to the fund:
Andhra Jyothi – ABN Farmers Relief Fund
Union Bank of India
Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.
Account No: 52760 10100 33657.
IFSC Code: UBIN0552763
SWIFT Code: UBININBBSEC
More than 50 lakhs have been raised till 27th September 2015. Two kids from Hyderabad Y. Lalitya Lahari, Y. Gunavanth Sri Sai have donated Rs. 3000 from their kiddy bank.
Girl donates 1 Lakh for ABN farmers fund (19-10-2015).
Several politicians like Revanth Reddy, Karhik Reddy, Bikshmaiah Goud, Onteru Pratap Reddy, etc and several individuals and industrialists from Andhra Pradesh also generously donating for the farmers relief fund. Let us hope the Andhra Jyothy – ABN initiative will give some relief to the families of farmers.
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