New Delhi: More than 1,000 people from across the world reached out within days to help a 19-year-old college student whose father, a farmer in Andhra Pradesh, had committed suicide.
After NDTV reported on the financial predicament of Swapna last week, absolute strangers have sent cheques to the family. The result: Swapna, a first-year college student, will no longer have to work as a farm hand to help pay her fees. Her mother, a heart patient, will be able to afford the medicines she needs and a surgery. Her young brother will stay in a private English-medium school. What's more the family will be able to pay off their outstanding loans that pushed Swapna's father Narsingula Bhikshapathi to take his own life.
Bhikshapati, a farmer from Vangapadu village in Warangal district, was among over 100 farmers who killed themselves in Telangana in the last two months, victims of the grizly combination of of a failed crop and expanding debt.
"The people who helped us...they may not even understand how much...they will always be in our hearts...God bless them," said Swapna's grand-mother, Sarojiamma.
The 16-year-old tells us one of the first things he did after the first donations arrived was to pay Rs 500 and collect a framed photo of his father from the studio.
After NDTV reported on the financial predicament of Swapna last week, absolute strangers have sent cheques to the family. The result: Swapna, a first-year college student, will no longer have to work as a farm hand to help pay her fees. Her mother, a heart patient, will be able to afford the medicines she needs and a surgery. Her young brother will stay in a private English-medium school. What's more the family will be able to pay off their outstanding loans that pushed Swapna's father Narsingula Bhikshapathi to take his own life.
Bhikshapati, a farmer from Vangapadu village in Warangal district, was among over 100 farmers who killed themselves in Telangana in the last two months, victims of the grizly combination of of a failed crop and expanding debt.
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"The people who helped us...they may not even understand how much...they will always be in our hearts...God bless them," said Swapna's grand-mother, Sarojiamma.
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The 16-year-old tells us one of the first things he did after the first donations arrived was to pay Rs 500 and collect a framed photo of his father from the studio.
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