Football is often referred to as “the beautiful game”. However, for 29-year-old A. Ashwini and her husband, H. Anand, it has also helped fund Ashwini’s surgery after local residents in the Nilgiris district, hearing of her financial plight, came together and organised a football tournament to raise funds for her treatment recently.
Ms. Ashwini and her husband, have been running from pillar to post trying to raise funds for her treatment after she was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease. Suffering from kidney disease for the last eight years, her husband, H. Anand, from Kadakodu village in Kannerimukku, Kotagiri, said the family had used up all their funds on dialysis treatments and other medical expenses for Ashwini.
“My wife has been undergoing treatment for the last eight years, and we have spent many lakhs of rupees on her treatment,” Mr. Anand told The Hindu. As the family could not afford the cost to begin the process of transplantation, Mr. Anand and his family began reaching out to local communities for help.
