CODP Holds Health Awareness and Distribution of Food Kits at Ullal Hoige
CODP ® Mangalore, Manos Unidas Spain and Permannur Parish jointly organized an awareness programme on health and distributed relief materials to members of all the religions of Ullal Hoige area people at Ullal Hoige on July 27th and 28th, 2020.
Mangaluru Diocese Bishop Dr Peter Paul Saldanha, Permannur Church parish priest Fr Dr J B Saldanha, CODP Director Fr Oswald Monteiro, CODP designated Director Fr Vincent D’Souza, Mangaluru City Corporation CorporatorVeena Mangala, Ullal municipal councillor Veena D’Souza, Demetrious D’Souza, Sarita D’Souza, Cynthia D’Souza, Lavina Ferrao, ward representatives and former president of the Permannur parish pastoral council Melwin C D’Souza were present on the dais.
Fr Oswald Monteiro welcomed the gathering and said that CODP is a service-oriented Catholic Charitable organization that has distributed more than 3,500 food kits to low-income families during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. He said that the organization always works for the development of the poor and needy people of Dakshina Kannada. It has also been collecting donations and uses the same for relief work. It provides necessary information and creates awareness on health.
Fr Dr J B Saldanha said that each individual should take care of his/her health and follow the guidelines given by the government and doctors. He also thanked CODP for arranging the awareness programme and also for providing food and health kits to his parishioners at Permannur.
Bishop Dr Peter Paul Saldanha said that the agency ‘Manos Unidas’ means an organization of poor working women in Spain who come together and donate a part of their income to us. The women there collect donations voluntarily and send it for the development of poor and needy people. We too, should be the generous hands that support others in our community. God Almighty will help us a hundred times and reward us generously.
Veena Mangala said that people should take precautions and be aware of COVID-19. She called on the people to obtain facilities available from the government for health issues.
CODP Project manager Lenet Gonsalves said that it is possible to stay away from coronavirus by taking health precautions. CODP Sparsha Project Coordinator Shilpa D’Souza and CODP Animator Pushpaveni explained about cancer, its prevention, obtaining treatment for it in the initial stages by taking nutritious food and exercise which provided some confidence to the people to fight cancer.
More than 350 needy people were provided with food and health kits in two days with six programs.
Molly Silvi Monteiro compered the programme.
