HYDERABAD: Fashion designer and model Shilpa Reddy, felicitated students Soumya Peri, Samyuktha Kolluru, Adviteeya Vojjala, Anusha V Kumar and Sathvika Kolluru, for their awe-inspiring initiative to raise Rs 5.5 lakh to help poor cancer patients at a programme organised by Grace Cancer Foundation on Sunday at The Plaza Hotel, Begumpet.
A volunteer of Grace Cancer Foundation, Soumya Peri, a Class X student from Delhi Public School, Khajaguda, and a disciple of Sasikala Swamy at Lakshmanachary Memorial College of Music, worked tirelessly to organise a musical concert on February 5 to raise funds for poor cancer patients, who otherwise can’t afford cancer detection and subsequent treatment.
Soumya and her friends - Samyuktha Kolluru, Adviteeya Vojjala, Anusha V Kumar and Sathvika Kolluru, all of whom are students of Sasikala have enthralled an audience of almost 350+ people with songs in Telugu and Hindi for over three hours. In the process, they raised the money for the foundation.