HYDERABAD: With all the nation grappling with the next tide of Covid-19, Indian women’s Test and ODI captain Mithali Raj has set her very best foot forward to assist the needy. Mithali is in difficult quarantine using the Indian group at a Mumbai hotel before the tour of England, but also has begun an initiative to assist autorickshaw drivers. “supply of food grains plus a little sum for sustenance being granted to car motorists from the Mithali Raj initiative. Dad performing the honours in my absence. One issue is that his mask,” she consulted, gently chiding her dad for never wearing the mask correctly. Mithali, with the rare distinction of grading 10,000 runs in international cricket round formats, also had distributed key products to the needy if she was in the a year ago. Inside her absence today, her daddy Dorai Raj spread essentials to taxi drivers and sellers during the past couple of days. “Many individuals have lost their livelihood due to the pandemic and lockdown. Our is a little initiative to assist the destitute,” Mithali’s mommy Leela Raj told TOI on Wednesday. “We’re supplying wheat, rice, dal, oiland additional essentials and a few funds to get vegetables,” she added. “In fact, the goal of the initiative differs. We found it annually. But as a result of lockdown, we couldn’t proceed with our job. But using plenty of folks suffering today, we chose to take the initiative ahead and assist them in a little manner,” she added. Automobile drivers aside, help the underprivileged kids can be on the cards. “Our aim is to assist talented underprivileged kids with rural heritage attain their own dreams. It is not just cricket, but we would like to pay the rest of the sports. Our goal is supply them with sport kits, so help them train at the very best of academies so they can reach their dreams,” Leela Raj added.