‘Team B-Human’ donates Rs. 1 lakh for treatment of 3-YO kid battling for life with 80% burn injuries
Mangaluru: Popular social organization of Mangaluru ‘Team B-Human’ has donated Rs. one lakh for the treatment of the son of Umar Farooque Ustaad, a resident Kinya, who had sustained severe burn injuries.
According to the reports, Umer Farooque, an employee at the Kodaje Badriya Juma Masjid, was living in hardship with his wife and two kids and had to recently avail loan to repair his house which was severely damaged due to storm.
To add to his woes, his three-year-old son Ibrahim Batish, sustained 80% burn injuries after hot water fell on him accidentally. Batish is currently receiving treatment at a private hospital in Derlakatte. Umar’s other son Dawood Hakeem is battling kidney-related ailment, reports added.
A fundraising campaign was recently run on local social media platforms to help Umar in sustaining in the hardship and to raise funds for the treatment of Batish. Taking note of the viral messages on social media, ‘Team B-Human’ came to the rescue of Umar and donated Rs. one lakh.
‘Team B-Human’ has also arranged for Rs. 70 thousand from its well-wishers which will also be deposited to Umar’s account soon. ‘Team B-Human’ in a release added that it will take care of Batish until he is discharged from the hospital post-treatment. It also added that those willing to lend support to Umar can contact their officials.
Founder of ‘Team B-Human’, Asif Deals, members Basha, Althaf, Sadiq, Shameem, and others were present when the cheque of Rs. one lakh was handed over to Umar.
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Vice president embarks on two-day visit to Sri Lanka
New Delhi (PTI): Vice President of India C P Radhakrishnan on Sunday left for Sri Lanka on a two-day official visit.
This marks the first bilateral visit by an Indian vice president to Sri Lanka, his office said.
During the visit, Radhakrishnan will call on the President of Sri Lanka Anura Kumara Disanayaka.
He will also meet the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Harini Amarasuriya, along with other dignitaries on April 19, an official statement said.
Radhakrishnan will interact with leaders of the Indian-origin Tamil community and Tamil leaders from the Northern and Eastern regions of Sri Lanka.
Later in the day, the vice president will address the Indian diaspora at a community event in Colombo, where he will virtually hand over houses to beneficiaries from Tamil communities, built with assistance from the Indian government as part of the third phase of the Indian Housing Project.
With this, the total number of houses for Tamil communities will reach 50,000, and 10,000 more houses are being built in the fourth phase of the project, the statement mentioned.
On April 20, the vice president will travel to Nuwara Eliya, visit the Indian Housing Projects, and interact with the local Tamil community.
This visit, which follows recent high-level engagements between the two countries, is expected to further strengthen the millennia-old civilisational and people-to-people ties between India and Sri Lanka, the statement said.
