hyderabad as the city continued to battle the covid19 outbreak heartening stories of camaraderie poured in from various corners of hyderabad with residents reaching to help each other and also those in need right from sharing vegetables and essentials with neighbours and distributing care packages among the poor to ferrying medicines for elderly people living alone in hyderabad citizens were found doing all they could to extend a hand in supportthis is a time when every indian should realise that if they have two rotis on the plate they should share one will someone who has no access to food said shaaz mehmood one of the three people who coined the helpthehungry initiative as part of this the team is distributing provision packages comprising dry groceries soaps and medicines among the poorwe are particularly targeting construction workers windows and single women running small stalls in the city in the first phase we hope to reach out to distribute about 2500 such packets in the city he added the initiative is simultaneously being launched in chennai bengaluru delhi and parts of north karnataka as wellcreated in 2016 the sainikpuri garden club has come out to help local residents the group was formed so that members could exchange seeds saplings as well as selfgrown fruits and vegetables beyniaz edulji is among the members who offers fresh produce i started planting fruits and veggies at my organic mango and lime orchard in nandyal a few years ago i later realised that i could offer what i had to others as well we dont use pesticides and fertilisers others in the group with home gardens just offer the extras they have jayashree uppal said i grow all the green vegetables and dont need to buy them in addition there is jackfruit lettuce and coconuts i often give the extra fruits and vegetables to neighbours and friendswhile city developer ashwin rao started with a social media post to reach out to parents of friends living abroad he is in the process of creating a network of volunteers it was my way of doing my bit for the elderly mostly deliver medicines and basic essentials to them since we have movement restriction now we are trying to create a network of volunteers alumni of hps ramanthapur to reach out to as many people as we can rao said