Parimala Ananth on her initiative called ‘Pari Cares’
The Hindu
She is on a mission to gift home baked birthday cakes to under-priviledged children
Parimala Ananth shuttled between work and home with hardly had any time to sit back.All that changed when COVID-19 happened. “We were all confined to our homes. I started baking extensively in my free time. One day I baked extra cup cakes and was driving to a friend’s place. On the way saw a group of street children. I stopped the car on an impulse and distributed the cup cakes to them. The way the children showed their excitement, left a deep impact on me.”
Parimala reached out to the orphanages near her home in South Bengaluru. “I spoke to the authorities and made a note of the children who had their birthdays in the coming months. I baked cakes for their birthdays.”

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