As part of Gandhi Jayanthi, Rajasthan Cosmo Club Foundation, Chennai, today distributed new clothes worth Rs 10 lakh to the needy students of various schools and orphanages in and around the city.
About 4,100 tribal and Adi Dravidar students and persons from orphanages and old age homes benefited by this noble gesture, organised in association with Rajasthani Sangh Coimbatore.
K Shankar, IG, West Zone and the Corporation Commissioner, Dr VIjay Karthikeyan handed over the baggage containing the clothes to the heads of institutions.
Sandip Mehta, Chair of the Foundation said that over the last two decades, it was running a cloth bank at Chennai and has been distributing clothes in time of calamities, flood, slum fire, besides over 50,000 new school uniforms to the needy students every year.
