News Karnataka
Thursday, March 28 2024
Cricket
Open Space

Youth for You reaches out to food needs of needy

Youth for You reaches out to food needs of needy
Photo Credit :

Youth for You reaches out to food needs of needy

Amid pandemic, mission “Youth for You” is a noble initiative taken by ICYM Karnataka Region in Karwar Diocese under the able leadership of Benreuben S. Rodrigues, Vice President and Prajwal R. Lopez, Asian MIJARC Chairperson of Food Sovereignty Commission.

Speaking to News Karnataka, Prajwal R. Lopez said that they have distributed around 400 grocery packets to a total of 20 parishes of the 3 deaneries in Honnavar, Kumta, and Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district.

Youth for You reaches out to food needs of needy 2

“During the last 10 days, the team personally reached out to places and parishes such as Honnavar, Shantinagar, Prabhatnagar, Motto, Sanamotto, Mugwa, Hadinbal, Gundibala, Allanki, Mudkani, Matadakeri, Upper Kasarkod, Lower Kasarkod, Honmav, Manaki, and Mirjan and handed over the grocery packets for over 400 needy families,” he said.

“It was a challenging mission for us to go out to the field during the 2nd wave of the Pandemic Covid – 19. We have also reached the people living in the islands and we reached such people through boats,” he said.

Youth for You reaches out to food needs of needy 3

Expressing gratitude, he said, “the ICYM team is ever grateful to the generous donors who contributed for such a noble cause. Rannon M. Rodrigues and Joyal Soft Drinks Company of Kasarkod provided vehicles for the transportation of the distribution as well space for packaging of the grocery packets. The team is also grateful to the various Parish Priests and the local Youth Leaders of the respective parishes, who have co-operated in the distribution of the grocery packets to the deserving people of their areas,” he added.

Youth for You reaches out to food needs of needy 1

Share this:
SC PV Kamat

Preeti V Kamat, a young Postgraduate in Mass Communication and Journalism from Karnatak University, Dharwad utilises her considerable learned journalistic knowledge and inherent nose for news that matters to provide the media brands of the Spearhead Media group with a competitive edge. Her focus is on profiles and human-interest stories.

Read More Articles
MANY DROPS MAKE AN OCEAN
Support NewsKarnataka's quality independent journalism with a small contribution.

How useful was this post?

Click on a star to rate it!

Average rating 0 / 5. Vote count: 0

No votes so far! Be the first to rate this post.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

To get the latest news on WhatsApp