While Tiruchi’s residents have retreated indoors to beat the heat, a school girl M.P. Sugitha has been going out, looking for street vendors who are insufficiently protected against the sunshine, and gifting them umbrellas and handheld fans.
Ms. Sugitha, a Class X student of St. Joseph’s Anglo-Indian Girls’ Higher Secondary School, and recipient of the State Award for Girl Child Empowerment this year, has an abiding interest in helping the poor and needy since the age of 10.
For the past five years, the resident of Ranjithapuram neighbourhood has been donating bedsheets, clothes and footwear to socially disadvantaged people, with the support of her family.
