Sameera Reddy To The Rescue!
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 2:38 pm Under Bollywood, Entertainment News 3,094 views
This Independence Day, several street kids in Mumbai will have a pucca roof over the heads, thanks entirely to the efforts of Sameera Reddy.
The sexy actress and her mother have been supporting NGOs in suburban Mumbai that take in beggar children, give them shelter and try to put them up in schools. Last year, a girl child got molested in one such shelter, and when Sameera’s mother got the police involved… the landlady of the shelter was pressurised by the molester to evict all the children and shut down the home.
“It happened on Independence Day,” revealed Sameera, “and that’s when I decided to do something for these children. One year later, on this August 15, the actress will throw open the doors of a 1,200 sq ft shelter in Goregaon East that she has managed to raise from scratch for these same street kids. “I appealed to everyone to chip in and within a week, managed to raise Rs 25 lakh,” she said. “I was overwhelmed. Even my liftman offered to help.”
She’s had further luck since then. Another well-wisher has donated a place in Mulund for the same cause. “We can now house the girls and boys separately,” said Sameera, thoroughly enthused by the spirit of Mumbai.
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