Don Bosco Yadgir supports the needy during the COVID-19 pandemic

Don Bosco Yadgir with the support of BREADS Bangalore, reached out with essential help to the people struggling without basic requirements in Yadgir district. The supply of ration kits and medicines reached 227 families in different villages namely: Musthalli in Shorapur taluk; Ibrahimpur, Hosur, Maddaraki and Doranahalli in Shahapur taluk; and Bandalli, Worknalli, Mailapur, Hosalli Cross, Ambedkar Nagar in Yadgir taluk.

The beneficiaries were mainly patients of COVID-19 and their families, orphaned children, the differently-abled, rag pickers, beedi workers, migrants, beggars, construction workers and daily wage workers. Fr. Praveen SDB, Director of Social Work at DB Yadgir, led the distribution together with the Programme Coordinators of CHILDLINE and CREAM (Child Rights Education and Action Movement), members of Child Rights Clubs (CRCs) and Anganwadi teachers of the respective villages.