Hyderabad: For Covid-hit families, people are a call away

HYDERABAD: The surge in Covid-19 cases in Hyderabad over the last few weeks has prompted citizens to set up and help those affected.
Unlike the first wave when Covid-19 affected households were being sealed and stigmatised, people are now united by the pandemic with many taking up the responsibility to help each other.
Covid-hit families, who are under home isolation are getting a helping hand from next door or across the fence.Residents in many gated communities and colonies are delivering daily meals, medicines among other essential items to affected families by following Covid protocols like social distancing.
“I had an old couple living next to me. Their children live in the US. Both of them were affected and were not very tech-savvy to use online food delivery platforms. When I got to know about this, I decided to extend help by serving them food every day,” said Madhav Rao, a resident of East Marredpally.
Many residents living in gated communities have also come forward to help those who are in need.
“We have a common WhatsApp group, where affected families put up their request for food and preferences such as vegetarian/non vegetarian, south Indian or north Indian. Accordingly, the home cooks come forward to help them and deliver the food through our security staff to the respective houses,” said Gopi Alisetty, general secretary of My Home Avatar.
Not just this, increasing number of people are delivering food for free of cost to Covid-19 affected people. Many of them are those who had offered similar services during the second wave.