Mysore/Mysuru, May 29 -- Herself a beneficiary of food packets distributed by Rotary Heritage Mysuru, 70-year-old Kamalamma had lost her job as house maid due to age factor during COVID lockdown.

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the livelihoods of crores of people into a chaotic twister. Migrant labourers, daily wagers and footpath vendors have all had their only source of income snuffed out by the lockdown.

While many celebrities and politicians donated money, food and relief materials and filmed, photographed themselves while doing so, there are people who genuinely provided monetary assistance to the poor. Here is a story of a woman, who is poor herself and who has given away Rs. 500 of her Rs. 600 monthly pension to food-supplying v...