Project Annapoorna 2011 - Food Drive

At the dawn of the Telugu New Year ‘Srikhara’, Telugu Association of Utah started ‘Project Annapoorna 2011’ to tap into the generosity of Telugu people of Utah.

At first, the 'Food Drive' was launched to generate food supplies in support of the Utah Food Bank (https://www.utahfoodbank.org/).  The Food Drive was conducted from Apr 6, 2011 till Apr 30, 2011.

The following food items were recommended to be donated.
  • Commercially-packaged, Non-perishable Canned Items (Ex: Peanut Butter, Canned Veggies & Fruits, Macaroni & Cheese / Pasta).  
  • Visit Utah Food bank for more details on what items can be donated.
An initial goal of 750 lbs was set.  The Food Drive completed on Apr 30, 2011 collecting 2630 lbs of food.  Telugu Association of Utah reached another milestone in show casing the generosity of Telugu people of Utah. All the food was handed over to Utah Food Bank on Saturday 5/7/2011.

Click here to view the receipt.

The Charity Committee of Telugu Association of Utah spear headed all the activities of this food drive with the help of other volunteers.   Contributions from many donors and efforts of many volunteers made this humongous collection of 2630 lbs of food a reality.

Telugu Association of Utah thanks the Charity Committee, Donors and the Volunteers for conducting such a wonderful and noble activity.

Photos of TAU Food Drive - Spring 2011
List of Donors who contributed food items: 
Alamu & Karu Kalpana & Santosh Kolipaka Parvathi & Rajgopal Vujjala Shanthi & HanumanthaRao Gonuguntla
Anu & Sagar Kalyani & Balaji Pinjala Pavan Srividya & Ravi Suram
Arun Muthukkumarswamy  Karthikeyan Jeyabalan  Pooja Hoskere  Sumathi & Krishna Parsawar 
Arunima & Santosh Bolipati  Kranthi & Harsha P  Radika & Balram  Sumitha & Sai Bhavaraju 
Barathi & Raju Pusapati  Krishnakanth Desiraju  Raghu Ravuri  Sunitha & Dev Avasarala 
Bindu & Udaya Kapu  Krishnaveni & Mallesh Manchala Rameshwar Karingala  Swapna & Janaki Ram 
Deepthi & Sarath Dandala  Latha & Naveen  Ramya & Sundar  Swapna & Sarath Jampala 
Ganga & Krishnakanth Golakoti   Lavanya & Madhu Vallur  Ratna, Kishore & Satya Bellamkonda  Swarna & Mahesh Pokala 
Harika & Harish Devulapalli  Madhavi & Vijay Jonnavithula  Renu & Guru Bandiathamkur  Swathi & Kasi Nalla 
Haritha & Diwakar Nandiraju Manu Goyal  Rohini & Amar Vinnakota  Swetha & Kiran Koduru 
Hemanth Parsa  Megan Martin  Roopa & Bhaskaryandava  Usha & Trilok Prithvi 
Hymavathi & Babu Paritala Neelima Penmestsa  Roopa & Harikumar Selvaraj  Vanitha Jain 
Indira & Mahesh   Neeraja & Suresh Kumar  Sagar Kalapala  Vasavika & Sandeep Reddy 
Indrani & Srini Reppale  Padmaja & Ashok Challa  Satya  Vignya & Kiran Paligiri 
Jyothi & Bhavanand Reddy  Pallavi & Ravi Darbhamulla  Shailaja Gunapalli  Vivek Natarajan 
Kalai & Karthik  Parimala & Srinivas  Shankar Tulasiraman  Yamini & Veeranjaneya 

List of Volunteers who helped: 
Anjibabu Paritala Kasi Nalla  Mahesh Pokala  Sai Bhavaraju 
Balaji Pinjala  Kiran Koduru  Raghu Ravuri  Santosh Kolipaka 
Guru Badiathamkur  Kiran Palagiri  Ratna Rolla  Swarna Pokala 
Hanumantha Rao  Krishna Parasawar  Ravi Suram  Udaya Kapu 
Harish Devulapalli  Krishnakanth Desiraju  Roopa Harikumar  Usha Prithvi 
Janakiram  Krishnakanth Golakoti  Sagarkavi Srungarakavi  Vijay Jonnavithula