Samantha gives away Charity Awards of United Way of Hyderabad

United Way of Hyderabad, the Charity Partner of Jio Hyderabad 10 K Run raises INR 62.12 lakh through Run for Cause

Presents Charity Awards to those individuals and organizations for excelling in raising Charities for NGOs

Film Actress Samantha graces the Awards Function and Presents Charity Awards

A volunteer-led, nonprofit global organization and charity Partner of Jio Hyderabad 10K Run raised INR 62. 12 lakh through Run for Cause held as part of the Hyderabad 10K Run. The amount generated by these dream runners will be donated to that many i.e 62 NGOs. Some of these NGOs include Rainbow children’s Foundation, Hyderabad Cleft Society, Pratyush Foundation, AkshyaPathra, Magic Bus, AshrayAkruthi, CRY, Nanhi Kali, Sparsh Hospice informed Ramesh Kaza, Treasurer and Board member of United Way of Hyderabad while speaking about Capturing RUN for Cause and gave highlights of the funds generated by United Way of Hyderabad through this run.

22 corporates and 60 NGOs and 2200 Dream Runners participated in this Run. What is so pleasing is off these 2200, there are 23 kids who proved that they too could play their role in community service. They have generated Rs 50,000/- each for the charity, Ramesh Kaza informed.

In this year we have raised Rs 11 crore for charities. Last year we could raise only Rs 4crore, Ramesh Kaza informed.

Some of these corporate include ADP, Aparna, Bank of America, Bharat Biotech, Cognizant, Cyient, DE Shaw & Co, Dr. Reddy's, DST, Franklin Templeton Investments, Infosys, Invesco, Oakridge, Progresive, Ryan, Sai, Synchrony, Thomson Reuters, UBS, Wells Fargo, Xilinx and others.

Among NGOs, Rainbow children’s foundation & Hyderabad Cleft Society raised the highest pledge amount 4.34 laks each. Dr. Ramesh Kancharla in his Individual capacity raised highest pledge amount of 4 laks. 22 children in the age group of 10 to 18 years raised pledge of 11.2 lakhs under IDream runner category. Bank of America raised the highest pledge of 6 laks towards charity Kaza informed. This meeting is called for to announce that theRs 62 lakh raised is the highest so far. That meeting is also called for to present Charity Awards to all those who excelled in raising the maximum charities under different categories, he informed. United Way of Hyderabad was Charity Partner for Hyderabad 10K Run for the third times.
The Charity Awards function is graced by Mr. Shakti Sagar, Chairman United Way of Hyderabad,; Ms. Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Actress & Founder Director Pratyusha Support; MrShyam of Hyderabad 10K Foundation and Bhuvaneshwari of Reliance Jio.

Earlier Shakti Sagar, Chairman of the United Way of Hyderabad welcomed the gathering. Chief Guest Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Actress and Founder Director of Pratyusha Foundation gave away the Charity Awards. Speaking immediately after presenting the awards Samantha stressed upon the ‘Need to prioritize work & engagement on preventive & curative Health Care services’

The United Way of Hyderabad Charity Awards function concluded with Rekha Srinivasan, Executive Director of United Way of Hyderabad proposing Vote of Thanks.

About United Way of Hyderabad (UWH): It is a premium volunteer led, non –profit organization that endeavors to leverage corporate, employee and leadership talent for community development.

Vision: Create a world where all individuals and families achieve their human potential through education, income stability and healthy lives.

Mission: Improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the communities and advance towards common good.

Motto:GIVE .ADVOCATE . VOLUNTEER- LIVE UNITED