The Telugu Sahithya Samskrithika Samithi (TSSS), a Chittoor district-based cultural organisation, on Sunday presented the Best Mother award to P. Srilatha, director of the Rural Organization for Poverty Eradication Services (ROPES), for the services rendered to thousands of orphans, semi-orphans and poor and downtrodden children in the western mandals of the district during the last 28 years. The event was conducted at the Government Library at Palamaner town, to mark the Mothers’ Day celebrations.
The organisers said Ms. Srilatha had been instrumental in preventing over 500 child marriages all over the district in a span of two years, in addition to extending relief works to the victims of natural calamities such as earthquakes, cyclones and floods.
TSSS president Tulasiram Naidu said Mrs. Srilatha’s three-decades of service had led to drastic fall in the dropout rate among the girl students both in schools and colleges, improvement in the intake of nutritious food among the pregnant women and children in a number of tribal hamlets.
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Ms. Srilatha said she was planning to tour all the remote tribal hamlets in the district to further curtail the school dropout rate among the tribal population by creating awareness among the parents, besides working out modules for their economical sustenance.
Writers, teachers, women groups and school students took part in the programme.
Srilatha says she is planning to tour all remote tribal hamlets to create awareness among parents