Friends have come to the rescue of a fruit vendor at Nandyal by offering a job and extending financial assistance to the education of his child.
The students of 1983 batch of 10th class at Sri Ramakrishna Vidyalayam extended an invitation to all 125 members of the batch for a get-together recently. They found eight persons dead and the financial condition of three others is worse.
Haneef, their class topper and class leader, is reluctant to appear in public due to his poverty. Haneef dropped out of college after the death of his father and the business he started also brought heavy losses crippling his family financially.
In the absence of any source to support the family, he donned the role of a fruit vendor at Nandyal Bus Stand. He tried to avoid interaction with friends and classmates.
A group of his classmates, led by M. Sivakumar Reddy, Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, visited his house and offered him a stable job in a marketing agency being run by his classmate while his son was extended financial assistance to complete the polytechnic course.The group also visited the family of C. Prabhakar, who died, and offered 5 acre land for its support. The family of another friend Nagaraju was offered Rs. 1 lakh as immediate assistance and his son who is working as a helper in medical shop, was asked to set up his own shop with their assistance.
Mr. Sivakumar Reddy told The Hindu that out of the batch of 125 students, a majority of them settled in high positions. One of them was a scientist with ISRO, several settled as software professionals and a dozen of them as government officers. A few of them flourished in business.The group decided to help their friends first and planned to start an NGO ‘Budding Hands’ for sustained work.
Students of 1983 batch of 10th class at Sri Ramakrishna Vidyalayam extend help to their friends who are facing financial problems
