Coimbatore: School extends helping hand to needy students

COIMBATORE: Schools continue to help underprivileged students, whose parents have lost their livelihood due to the lockdown.
On Wednesday, T A Ramalingam Chettiar Higher Secondary School, a government-aided school at Saibaba Colony in the city, distributed grocery items and provisions to 60 students. Schoolteachers said they had decided to help students, who had lost their parents and those raised by a single parent.
The school’s alumni had given grocery items to the students 20 days ago, said T Arulanandam, a teacher. “They gave 50 students rice and dal. So, teachers decided to give them legumes such as horse gram and green gram, which would ensure a protein-rich diet. We also gave them oil, masala and napkins. So far, alumni and teachers together have reached out to 110 students. The alumni have expressed desire to help more needy students.”
Earlier, S Annadhanalakshmi, a Tamil teacher at the school, had provided groceries and masks to 100 farm labourers in and around Perur, who had lost livelihoods because of the lockdown.