After years of rescuing people, Theruvoram now seeks a helping hand

Donations on which the NGO was being run are drying up due to the pandemic

In over a year since the first COVID-19 case was reported in the State, Theruvoram, a Kochi-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has rescued and rehabilitated around 1,300 people from across the State. After rescuing thousands of sick and abandoned persons from the streets in the last two decades, the NGO is now staring at a crisis as donations on which it was being run are fast drying up due to the pandemic. “We are running up debts and, going by the alarming rate at which it is rising, we may have to shelve our services very shortly unless kind-hearted people come to our rescue. One of our two ambulances is languishing in the workshop for want of money to pay repair charges,” said Murugan S., the NGO founder.