Mangalore:- Health Awareness and Distribution of Food Kits at Ullal Hoige by CODP ® Mangalore and Permannur Parish. |

Mangalore:- CODP ® Mangalore, Manos Unidas Spain and Permannur Parish jointly organized an awareness programmeon health and distributed relief materials to members of all the religions of UllalHoigearea people at UllalHoige on July 27^th and 28^th, 2020.

Mangaluru Diocese Bishop Dr Peter Paul Saldanha, Permannur Church parish priest Fr Dr J B Saldanha, CODP Director Fr Oswald Monteiro, CODP designated Director Fr Vincent D Souza, Mangaluru City Corporation Corporator Veena Mangala, Ullal municipal councilor Veena D Souza, Demetrious D Souza, Sarita D Souza, Cynthia D Souza, Lavina Ferraoward representatives and former president of the Permannur parish pastoral council MelwinC DSouza were present on the dais.

Fr Oswald Monteiro welcomed the gathering. He said that CODP is a service oriented Catholic Charitable organization that has distributed more than 3,500 food kits to poor families during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. He said that the organization always works for the development of the poor and needy people of Dakshina Kannada. It has also been collecting donations and uses the same for relief work. It provides necessary information and creates awareness on health.

Fr Dr J B Saldanha said that each individual should take care of his/her health and follow the guidelines given by government and doctors. He also thanked CODP for arranging the awareness programme and alsofor providing food and heath kits to his parishioners at Permannur.

Bishop Dr Peter Paul Saldanha said this possible to stay away from coronavirus by taking health precautions. CODP Sparsha Project Coordinator Shilpa D Souza and CODP Animator Pushpaveni explained about cancer, its prevention, obtaining treatment for it in the initial stages by taking nutritious food and exercise which provided some confidence to the people to fight cancer.