A small San Diego based puja group sponsored Save A Mother for their recent Annual Fundraising 5k Walk, which took place at Torrey Pines State Reserve. This group was started in 2001 by four ladies, Uma Bommakanty, Annapurna Yenamandra, Prabha Pyati, and Anasuya Peesapati. They meet on a monthly basis to recite the lalitha sahasranam to goddess Lalita Devi, a Divine mother who is also symbolized as feminine power, Shakti.
Their organization is named LSNP (Lalita Sahasra Nama Pathanam). This year they introduced an annual charity walk in addition to their monthly pujas as a way to encourage team building, well being, and support for charity organizations. They chose to contribute to Save A Mother for their very first walk because it’s an organization that values the life of a mother.
INFANT AND MATERNAL MORTALITY – THE PROBLEM AND SOLUTIONS: Two million babies and mothers die worldwide each year from childbirth complications. This number far exceeds child deaths from malaria and HIV/AIDS!! Read about the latest findings from a huge research study conducted by Save the Children, the Gates Foundation, and the Johns Hopkins University, with investigators from a dozen countries – contributed by Shiban Ganju
