Edu min gifts football to teenager on wheelchair

Thiruvananthapuram: When a 13-year-old

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bound Sreehari casually asked the education minister V Sivankutty, whether he can have a football, he would not have thought he would get it delivered right at his home, with the signature of the minister.

Education minister V Sivankutty was quick to act on the request by the boy while he interacted with the children at the distribution of motorised wheelchairs organised by Kollam district panchayat on Tuesday. The minister came for the inauguration of the programme when Sreehari shared his request for a football.

The minister soon bought a ball, signed on it and contacted the Chavara area committee to get the ball to Sreehari’s house. Soon SFI activists handed over the football to Sreehari at his house at Panmana. Sreehari has been bedridden since his birth.

His father Biju, a fisherman, said that Sreehari grew a fondness for football listening to tales by his neighbour and football player Sreevishnu. Messi is his idol. TNN