Madurai:47-year old C.Mohan owns a salon in Madurai for the last 20 years. He earns about Rs 600 every day and has been saving most of it for the education of his only daughter, 13 years old Nethra.

He had saved Rs 5 lakh, to coach Nethra for her UPSC exams and dreams of making her an IAS officer.

Then the lockdown started, the economic crisis deepened, and families started going into starvation.

It was then that Nethra asked her father to use his savings of Rs 5 lakh to help the needy.

They distributed food packets and fed 600 families in Madurai. Nethra convinced her father that helping these poor families should be their top priority, God willing, she said, she has enough time in hand to clear her UPSC in the future.

They say, like good aroma, even the news of good deeds spread fast. The PM of India mentioned C.Mohan and Nethra in his popular program ‘Mann Ki Baat’. The UN appointed Nethra as “Goodwill Ambassador to the Poor” for the United Nations Association for Development And Peace (UNADAP).

 She will be soon speaking at the UN Civil Society Organisation conferences in New York and in Geneva.