Kerala woman asks son’s teacher for Rs 500 to buy food, gets Rs 51 lakh in donations

Mangalore Today News Network

Palakkad, Dec 22, 2022: Left with no other option, a woman in Kerala sought the assistance of Rs 500 from her son’s teacher to buy food for her three children, one of them bedridden with cerebral palsy.

The 46-year-old woman, Subhadra, hailing from Palakkad in Kerala, asked for some money from her son Abhishek’s teacher, Girija Harikumar. Subhadra lost her husband in August and was struggling to make ends meet.

 

Moved by the plight of the family, the teacher posted it on social media and sought assistance. She started a crowdfunding campaign on social media. She also shared Subhadra’s bank account details in the post, so that the money could be directly transferred to her.

The post went viral and in around two days, Rs 51 lakh reached the bank account of the woman as contributions from philanthropists.

Girija said, "She asked me for Rs 500 and I gave her Rs 1,000 and told her I would do something."

She then visited the family and saw that they were living in grinding poverty. "There was just a handful of grains in the kitchen and the children had nothing to eat," Girija Harikumar said.

People across social media are appreciating the teacher’s kind intention. "I only had two intentions in my mind while posting that post. 1. Their unfinished house should be completed and they should shift to a better place. 2. That mother should not beg before anybody for feeding and educating her children. I don’t know how to express my gratitude to all of you,” Girija later wrote on her social media account and shared a picture.

Some of the money will be used to finish a house that Subhadra’s husband began building before he died. The rest will be deposited in the bank for their expenses.

Courtesy: India Today