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Sarojini Perla
Shrimati Sarojini Perla (23 March 1955 – 07 December 2019) was an Indian social worker and reform activist well known for care, social service, and a woman dedicated to helping the Poor, Elderly, Physically handicapped, Widows and Destitute people at Sarojini Perla Foundation, Aluru, Ponnur, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Shrimati Sarojini was born on 23 March 1955, in a remote village in the Ponnur Mandal, Guntur district. Shrimati Sarojini Perla is a founder and member of the Sarojini Perla Foundation (SPF) established in Aluru, Ponnur, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India 2005.

She was one of the best known and respected women through her social activities implemented in Aluru and surrounding villages of Ponnur. The powerful personality of supporting nature to others made her stand forefront and won a lot of respect in the Aluru village.

Shrimati Sarojini was a very strong, independent woman, stubborn, determined, and was an intelligent decision-maker who used to move forward with confidence and was courageous enough to take her own decisions even in a disastrous situation.

Sarojini Devi's thoughts and convictions are in such a way that, she believes the country's growth will only be possible if the society is strengthened with a strong literacy rate and civilization values. Many great women have proven that even women can be taken in any area and any culture with a patriarchal inclination. Shrimati Sarojini Devi is one of those.

Shrimati Sarojini Devi use to give awareness to the society about the importance of a child’s educational values as "Children's childhood should not be lost in forced labor, and education is their birthright". She states that the establishment of a new society is believed to be possible through the education of children. She was at the forefront of addressing a social touch of village problems and used to have the highest philosophy concerning society. According to her view, "Only those people who have no perception of discrimination between the rich and the poor can only establish a better society”.

Few people have an absolute inherent love for helping others. Shrimati Sarojini is the ultimate example of her kindness, great humanism, the generous, respectable woman with a good sense of service, hard-working mentality, and dignity. Though she was not rich, through Shrimati Sarojini Perla Foundation (SSPF) she always supported Aluru and the surrounding villagers of Ponnur.

Early Life and Education
Shrimati Sarojini's early childhood life was taken care of by her parents and she spent most of her childhood in her hometown. Her father was a farmer while the mother used to look after the family. “Some people don’t listen to anybody’s words for what they see.” “On the other side, there are people who have an interest in everything since childhood, they won’t rest until they figure out what it is?” Shrimati Sarojini belongs to this category where she used to observe even at the smallest things with utmost curiosity”. She has been passionate about education since childhood and had dreams of going to a higher position in life.

She became ill and unconscious at the age of five and was believed to be dead due to a lack of body movements. She was rushed to a nearby hospital with agility, where she was treated promptly and was able to survive then.

At the age of 6, she was enrolled at a girls' school in Ponnur. From an early age, she had unwavering thoughts about commitment, dedication, persistence, and education. She uses to practice songs diligently. Sarojini was a very determined woman who used to practice and read the lessons every day as a matter of discipline.

Shrimati Sarojini was an outstanding singer, and she used to sing well. In the music competition held at college, she won first prize for her singing. Later, with the permission of her parents, when the opportunity arose to sing songs, as a singer she earned a good reputation by performing in several programs. She had to drop out of her education in the 8th grade due to financial circumstances.

Personal Life and Family
On September 19, 1971, Sarojini Devi was married to "Perla Venkateswarlu," a villager from Aluru, Ponnur Mandal, Guntur district. Venkateshwarlu was dependent on agriculture for their family livelihood. As a sign of Sarojini's Venkateshwarlu marriage, they had four children. As the family burden increased, Sarojini also moved to agricultural work as well. Even though Sarojini had a passion for education, she was unable to afford it or had to drop out. Her wish of attaining higher studies was never made possible. Even then she didn't quit instead wanted her children to pursue higher studies and make their dreams come true.

Sarojini was a stubborn woman with self-confidence. Though she had not been able to afford studies for at least one child of her, she wanted her four children to study well. The moment she decided, she admitted her four children to the school for their studies. According to her expectation, her children also started reading well. Her family's financial affordability was not stable all- time. When a huge amount of money was required for her children's higher education, she sold her existing cropland and cattle livestock. She spent this money on educating her children.

Eventually, Sarojini’s dreams come true. She achieved what she was thinking to do. Her children excelled in their studies. Thus the eldest son became an engineer, the second son a biologist, the third son a businessman, and the fourth son an engineer. Sarojini's struggle for the bright future of her children is indescribable. Sarojini has gone down in the history of the village of Aluru as a woman of willpower who endured many humiliations and sufferings and raised four children to a higher level. The phrase “Success comes from difficulties” applies 100% to Mrs. Sarojini.

Social Service
Mrs. Sarojini is a woman who knows the value of hard work. She was having higher thoughts about social awareness. She is a good woman at heart and could not do any harm to anyone. As her children grew up and became independent and settled in life, she began to think about society.

Sarojini saw very closely those who were suffering from many afflictions in society. Among them are those who are starving due to lack of proper food, those who are unable to afford or are deprived of education, parents who are being forced out of their home by their children, the sick, widows, and the disabled who cannot even afford medicines. The Sarojini Perla Foundation was established in 2005 to help such people.

This foundation represents Sarojini's quality of service. She performs a variety of social service programs through the five divisions of the Foundation.

Pensions Division
Since 90 percent of the population in Aluru is uneducated, the elderly (50+ age) are not well treated by their family members             unless they earn income. This scenario has led elderly people to rely on others for their care needs.

Shri Sarojini Perla Foundation Pension Scheme (SSPFPS)is a not-for-profit organization established to ensure and improve the lives of all underprivileged in Aluru village. Elderly people, senior citizens with vision impairment, hearing impairment, etc., physically disabled people, destitute, widows, and medically ill people who are bedridden in Aluru and secure their sustainable future by providing pensions at their doorsteps. We provide health and financial security to all of the aforementioned groups of people. This foundation accepts no other funds or donations from anyone else or from anywhere else.

This Pension Scheme extends to all of the above-listed individuals irrespective of ethnicity, caste, and gender. Pension is offered monthly to the individuals. Moreover, these funds are given at their door-steps to everyone. To avail of this Pension scheme, people can approach our foundation directly to the mentioned address or can fill out the request form with all the necessary information. Our team is always going to be constructive and meet you as soon as possible. Besides, we intend to extend this Pension Scheme to nearby Aluru villages.

Rural Development Division
Aluru is a rural village that does not have basic amenities. The distance between Aluru and Ponnur is 2 1⁄2 km. Aluru Village has no minimum transportation network as well as proper road access, and people have to rely on the town of Ponnur for almost all needs.

Shri Sarojini Perla Foundation Rural Development (SSPFRD) is one of the SSPF divisions created with an initiation intended solely to develop remote rural areas. The SSPFRD program consists of a specific team. Our team collects information about the villages with the assistance of PS, VRO, Sarpanch. SSPFRD team maintains a list of villages that don't have proper facilities from this collected data. Besides, it provides refined water in backend villages, LED lights on the streets, helps to maintain good drainage systems, establish sports-friendly playgrounds, enhance facilities in Anganwadi centers, plant trees on either side of the roads.

Carries out many development projects, including setting up a walking trail, building a graveyard, and upgrading temples, etc. SSPFRD helps to change the village circumstances as well as provides better facilities. Future initiation programs include excavation of canals and ponds for filling of water reservoirs for future needs of the villages, installing automatic solar lights on the streets, digitalization of schools, and so on.

Our Foodbank Division
Illiteracy, rely on farming, regular daily wages, families even also abuse their parents, elderly, and drive them out of their homes as they can’t earn money, alcoholism, etc. All of the above-mentioned reasons resulted in the lacking of the proper food supply in Aluru.

The main mission to start the Shri Sarojini Perla Foundation Foodbank program (SSPFFBP) is to work on the basic need of food for underprivileged and to help create a better future by ensuring villagers of Aluru and surrounding villages to reduce hunger, stay healthy and safe. Our Foundation offers midday meals, food donations to the poor who are sick and bedridden at their doorsteps daily, increases access to quality food on a first-come and first-serve basis in Aluru and nearby villages.

Perla family members typically contribute food to the elderly, Leprosy, and physically handicapped people by visiting charities and organizations on every good memorable day or occasion. Plans include wishing to provide evening meals in addition to a mid-day meal. Developing foodbank facilities in Aluru.

Our Education Division
Due to a lack of awareness of the importance of education, illiteracy among the residents in Aluru grew until 1985, families were not even interested in sending their children to educate because of constraints in society. Since then the situation changed substantially and the children have started going to schools.

Shri Sarojini Perla Foundation of Education Programme (SSPFEP) main mission is to ensure that every child gets the best start in career through a quality early education program and no child shall be deprived of education because of poverty. Our Foundation identifies talented children and merit students who are underprivileged and, in a state, to discontinue their education because of their family financial instability and provide assurance for their education. Offers education opportunities to the poor through the payment of tuition fees, provide school materials to Government supported and Anganwadi schools, providing school uniforms for children from low-income families, adopting talented children and taking responsibility and providing high-quality education are the future initiation programs

Our Healthcare Division
The main aim of the establishment of the Shri Sarojini Perla Foundation Healthcare Program (SSPFHP) is to provide financial assistance to treat and ensure that every poor person in Aluru receives proper health services. Since most of Aluru villagers are uneducated and rely on agriculture and daily wages for their livelihood, if they don't earn revenue, they don't take proper care of elderly or senior citizens. These reasons had led to Aluru's low rate of proper health conditions.

Here SSPFHP provides financial support for the delivery needs of pregnant women, financial assistance to medically ill patients i.e. Cancer and HIV patients for their treatment, provides bedridden people with financial assistance at their doorsteps. Irrespective of Religion, Caste, and Gender all individuals will be treated equally and provided with financial support. Provide economical help to people with a lack of rural livelihoods, demolition without sufficient settlements, to Men, women, children, and whole families living in poverty, destitute, elderly, etc. Future initiative programs include improving healthcare conditions in Aluru.

Death
Shrimati Sarojini Perla suffered from many months of declining illness during the last days of her life, but nothing could dissuade her from accomplishing her mission of helping the poor and needy. She was involved in helping through the SSPF until her very last illness. She had a heart attack at her home in Aluru village and her demise occurred at the age of 64 on 7th December 2019.

Shrimati Sarojini Perla has stayed in the hearts of the people since her death for her unwavering dedication to helping those who are most in need. Despite the massive scale of her charitable works and the lives she had touched, she kept only the humblest perception of her accomplishments to her dying day.

Shrimati Sarojini Perla Foundation's (SSPF) responsibilities were handed over to her husband Shri Perla Venkateshwarlu after Sarojini's demise. In January 2020, he was appointed as the chairman of the Foundation.