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From donating Rs 2 crore for COVID-19 fight to adopting kids: Look at Amitabh Bachchan's charity work
Amitabh Bachchan took to his blog and penned a list of philanthropy work he has done over the years and during the COVID-19 crisis.
DNA Web Team | May 10, 2021, 12:59 PM IST
1.Amitabh Bachchan paid off bank loans of 1500 farmers from his personal fund
Over 1500 farmers bank loans paid off by my personal fund and prevented them from suicide, as the suicide grew... from Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, UP et al... calling them over after identifying with respective banks and getting them all to Janak and in the presence of the bank representatives, paying them in person and getting them to strike off the loan, giving each farmer the document that they did not owe any more, that their loan was over and completed and paid back to the bank... some 300 odd from UP could not all be present... a bogie in the train booked for a limited number of 30 to 50 of them, from their respective cities in UP, received in Mumbai, put in buses, given a drive of the city of Mumbai, brought over to Janak, fed and given the loan cancellation certificate and put back on the train to their homes... all at my expense...
2.Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Shweta Bachchan Nanda gave succour to family of Pulwama attack martyrs
The brave soldiers at the border of the Country who had been martyred, their lists sought and their families, young wives and their children, some wives pregnant and expectant, given succour...
The martyrs at Pulwama after the terrible terrorist attack, their families spread all over the land contacted and brought to Janak and given succour... at the hands of Abhishek Bachchan and Shweta Bachchan Nanda...
3.Amitabh Bachchan provided food to 4 lakh daily wagers during COVID-19 crisis in 2020
Those that suffered during the COVID-19 last year... providing food for over 400,000 daily wage earners in the country for a month... feeding almost 5000 in the city each day lunch and dinner...
4.Amitabh Bachchan provided provided masks, PPE kits to frontline workers by donating to the Sikh committee
Provided masks, PPE units to front line warriors, Police Hospitals in the thousands... through personal funds... donating to the Sikh Committee that was helping the migrants to travel back home in the Inter-State busses, where the drivers were mostly Sikhs...
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5.Amitabh Bachchan provided chappals and shoes to migrants walking back home
When the migrants were walking back home, some without the benefit or the affordability of shoes... provided hundreds of chappals and shoes to them... due to lack of travel facility, booked 30 buses to locations in UP and Bihar and supplied them food and water for the overnight travel...
6.Amitabh Bachchan booked entire train, chartered three planes for migrant workers
Booked an entire train from Mumbai to UP to carry 2800 migrant passengers free of cost at my expense... and when the destination State blocked the train from coming into their State and cancelled the train... immediately chartered three Indigo Airline planes and flew almost 180 migrants in each flight to UP and Bihar and some to Rajasthan and J&K...
7.Amitabh Bachchan donated an entire diagnostic centre at a gurudwara in Delhi
And as the virus spread, donated an entire Diagnostic Centre... opened at Bangla Sahib Gurudwara in Delhi through the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee, set up in the premises of the Gurudwara for medical help for the poor and needy... an MRI machine and other Sonographic and Scan equipment of expenses beyond my means, but set up in spite... in the memory of my Nana, Naani and my Mother...
8.Amitabh Bachchan provided set up beds and provided oxygen concentrators in Delhi at a Gurudwara
A 250 to 450-bed care centre set up with further donation at the Rakabganj Sahib Gurudwara today in Delhi and soon to procure for them O2 (Oxygen) concentrators, not in stock or easily available, from overseas limited stock to be donated to Delhi where the need is immense and some to Mumbai... coming in within the week... 50 of them coming in from Poland by 15th and the rest around 150 from perhaps the US... orders placed, some have arrived and given to the Hospital in need...
9.Amitabh Bachchan arranged ventilators to the BMC and municipal hospitals in Mumbai
Ventilators of the immediate need to the BMC and the Municipal Hospitals ordered... around 20 of them, of course within my limited means, to be in, in a few days... some 10 have arrived today and on custom, the release shall be delivered...
10.Amitabh Bachchan set up beds at a school hall in Mumbai for COVID-19 patients
A 25-50 bed Hospital care centre set up at Juhu Army location at a School Hall, the Ritambhara School, with all facilities and should be up by the 12th of May... donated funds to set up...
11.Amitabh Bachchan donated COVID-19 detection machines to Nanavati Hospital
Three very important detection machines donated to Nanavati Hospital, last week to help in the detection of COVID-19...
12.Amitabh Bachchan feeding 1000 people living in slums of Mumbai
Feeding about 1000 in the slums and poor sections of the city...
13.Amitabh Bachchan adopted two children whose parents died in COVID-19, to provide them with free education
Young children... orphaned by the sudden death of the parents, left in oblivion... have adopted two and shall be put in an orphanage in Hyderabad... their study board and lodging free till they finish School... from the 1st to the 10th... and if they turn out bright to provide them with free upper education...
