TANA TEAM Square’s Activities (2009-2011)
TEAM Square has been helping numerous requests. This is only a
partial list of our activities.
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Four
Telugu Students died
in a fatal car accident, with one critically
injured. The accident happened at 1:45 a.m. on 03/21/2009 in the West
St. Louis County town of Des Peres. The Highway Patrol said Miller, a 12-year
veteran of the Sunset Hills police department, was driving in the wrong lane
at the intersection of Des Peres Road and Dougherty Ferry Road when her
Mitsubishi struck a Honda with five people inside. Everyone in the Honda
except the driver, Nitheesh died instantly. The Victims who lost their lives: Officer Miller was convicted and sentenced for 8 years in
prison. |
The entire Indian community is shocked with the horrifying
news. TEAM Square volunteers Trujakar Veeramachaneni and Dr. Prasad Bandi,
along with a few other TANA members, rushed to the hospital where the victims
were transported and worked tirelessly in assisting the families, friends and
relatives of the victims. TANA Team Square alerted the Telugu community and sought
donations to facilitate sending the bodies to India. More than 1,700 donors
responded with generous contributions. Prasad Bandi travelled to Chicago to
get permits from the Indian embassy, and Mohan Nannapaneni, TANA Treasurer,
travelled to St Louis, each at his own expenses to coordinate and expedite
the transportation. TEAM Square was successful in sending the bodies to the
families in record time. A wake/visiting service was held in St. Louis before
the bodies were transported to India. Hundreds of friends, relatives and
local Telugu people attended the service. TANA paid $23,320, in full, for the
funeral home services and transportation to India, from the donations raised
for TEAM Square. TANA distributed additional $40,000.00 among the four
families of the victims. The parents were very pleased with the support and
response provided by the donors, TANA and its TEAM Square. |
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Rajiv Reddy Malladi, 28 yrs, Hyderabad, a computer science graduate,
met with a train accident on Monday, March 23, 2009 at 9:30 AM at 40th St,
Sunnyside, NY and passed away. |
Mohan Nannapaneni, TANA Treasurer assisted the funeral service
along with the help of TEAM Square volunteers, Jay Talluri, Sriharsha
Garikapati, Suneel Bathina and Vijay Pati. TANA paid the full cost of $2,113.00 for the
funeral services held in Long Island, NY. |
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A Telugu young
man, Rudhraraju, 31, quality engineer at Toyota Motors in Atlanta, was found killed
in his apartment in Atlanta on 02/05/2009. |
Prasad Thotakura, TANA Secretary, along with other TANA
Volunteers and the Telugu Association of Metro Atlanta helped to send the
body to his family in India. TANA contributed $2,500 from its TEAM Square
funds. |
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Shashank Pulluru, pursuing his MBA at Middle Tennessee State
University, Murfreesboro, TN was shot on 11/15/2008 the early hours of
Saturday in Murfreesboro. |
TANA TEAM Square volunteer, and Tennessee Andhra Samithi president, Satyanarayana Rao Vadlamudi responded
to the incident and assisted Shashank and his parents. TANA provided $500
financial aid to Shashank. TANA worked closely with Tennessee Andhra Samithi to provide necessary support to Shasank and his parents. Shashank recovered from near
death and returned to join his family in Warangal, India. |
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A
major accidental fire affected 17 Telugu students, leaving them
homeless. Some of the students graduated recently and are in search of
jobs. Two apartments were burnt down, and residents of these apartments
almost lost everything. The present economy and job market is impacting
everyone in general, and disasters like this will surely have severe adverse
affect. |
TANA TEAM Square volunteers Hema Kanuri and Seetha Thotakura
responded immediately. Both went to the scene, took most of the victims out for food,
shopping, clothes, groceries and kitchen utensils. TANA contributed $2,086.87
from its TEAM Square funds to provide immediate relief. |
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A Telugu
student V.C. was taken away by the Immigration officials from University of
Hawaii at Honolulu for deportation. The panicked parents, living in Palvoncha, Khammam District, called TANA for help. |
Mohan Nannapaneni, responded immediately, and his corporate attorney,
Mr. Sean Fowler, talked to both the Immigration and the University officials.
Dr. Lokeswara Rao and his friend Dr. Krishan Rao Chalasani, OH helped raise $5,000.00
to bail the student. Mohan and Sean successfully negotiated with the
University to reinstate his status. Sreemanth Chinnam, our volunteer, visited
the detention center in Seattle to bail the student out. After nearly a two-month battle, and through
tireless efforts, our TEAM saved one student from deportation. |
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Dheeraj
Sukhavasi, a 23 yr.
old M.S. student of Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, died on Monday,
Sept. 14th, 2009 at 8:30 PM in Houston. The circumstances of his death are
unknown at this point of time and are under investigation. |
Mohan Nannapaneni & Prasad Thotakura from TANA assisted
the cousin of Dheeraj, Srinivas Sukhavasi, in sending the body to Dheeraj's parents in India. Dheeraj's
insurance covered the transportation and funeral agency services. |
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On 10/31/2008,
a Telugu mother and her two daughters, living in Novi, MI, were reportedly
killed by the father, who police have been attempting to track down ever
since. |
Dr. Bandla Hanumaiah, Dr. Lokeswara Rao, Uday Kumar
Chapalamadugu, Vidyasagar Maramreddy, Dilip Kuchipudi and many other TANA
directors and Life members visited and assisted the funeral service. |
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Kadiyala Murali Krishna,
a student of University of South Mississippi, was attacked on May
17th 2009,and severely injured. Murali was attacked when he requested payment
for a case of beer from a group of people at the store in Gulfport City-
AL, where he was working. While Murali was trying to note down their
car registration, he was hit and ran over by their car dragging him for
300 feet. The attackers were arrested. Murali underwent multiple
surgeries and still needed financial support. |
TEAM Square responded to the incident. Kishore Pula and Rajani Akurathi of
IL raised $2,625. TANA matched the contributions. Venkataramana Yarlagadda,
from TANA Foundation, visited Murali to present a $5,520 check. Many more donors responded with generous
contributions that enabled TANA to send
another check for $2017 to Murali, for a total contribution of $7,267.00. As Murali
belongs to a middle class family, this financial aid made a huge difference
to his difficult situation. He is recovering from the injuries and is expected
to return to his studies very soon. |
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Charan Akula,
age 42, was admitted to Kaiser Permanente in Fremont, California, with a viral
infection. He passed away on 09/02/2009. He was single
with elderly parents living in Hyderabad and does not have any family members
in USA. |
TANA Joint Secretary, Veeru Vuppala, responded to the incident
immediately and raised $3,000, along with the support of Bay Area Telugu
Association. Jayaram Komati, TANA President, Veeru Vuppala, Joint Secretary,
and many other TANA life members attended the funeral services held in
Fremont, CA. TANA contributed
$1,937.00 from its TEAM Square funds for the funeral service. |
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A 12 yr. old Telugu girl, YP, born with Cerebral Palsy cannot stand or
walk on her own, due to severe brain damage experienced during her birth. She
is a 6th grade student at a public School in San Jose, CA. She
desperately needed a motorized wheel chair to attend the school, and her
father, who is working on a H1-B visa for a small company, could not afford
anything other than her routine expenses. |
TANA’s Executive Committee considered the request of her
father and contributed $1,000 from TEAM Square funds to purchase a wheel
chair for YP. Veeru Vuppala, Joint Secretary of TANA, raised, with the help
of Bay Area Telugu Association, the remaining funds to purchase the chair,
valued at nearly $8,000.00. The wheel chair made a huge difference to her and
her family life. |
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Naresh Dacha, 22 yrs, native of
Hyderabad, MS student at Wright State
University, died in a freak car accident on 09/01/09 at 5:30 AM in Dayton, Ohio. Naresh died on the
spot, hitting a tree while avoiding a cat running across the
highway. Varun, friend of Naresh and who was in the passenger's
seat, is safe with minor injuries. |
Mohan Nannapaneni, Prasad Thotakura, Ravi Vallabhaneni, and
Dr. Chowdary Jampala, of TANA’s Board of Directors, worked with Dr. Mohan Rao
Nuthakki and other local TANA life members to send Naren's body to his parents in India. Prasad Thotakura
coordinated with the Embassy and University officials to expedite the
process. The University insurance covered the transportation expenses. The
money raised for this cause $10,549.00 is sent to his family. |
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A panicked
mother called TANA from India to seek help for her daughter P.N., pursuing an
MBA at Salem International University, WV. The parents suddenly found
themselves in financial difficulties, and PN was about to be expelled from
the college. The parents were deeply concerned for their lonely daughter, and
lived, helplessly, thousands of miles away. |
Mohan Nannapaneni negotiated with the CFO of the university
and succeeded in getting P.N. immediate relief. Dr. Lokeswara Rao Edara took
the initiative, and TANA Foundation granted $1,000.00 financial aid . PN
received financial support in time and is now happily pursuing her MBA. She
thanks TANA for helping her in a difficult time and commits to volunteering
for TANA activities. |
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Mr & Mrs. Venkat Ram Reddy Enukonda, residents of Hanamkonda,
AP, India, came to see their son, a recent graudate at University of New
Haven, CT. The parents, their son, along with two of his son's best friends,
were returning from a two day trip to Maine on 9/23/09. At about 11:30 PM, the
driver, Ramkishore Sadhu fell
asleep, and the car rolled over and crashed on highway 495 near Bolton, MA,
killing the parents, Mr. Venkat Ram Reddy Enukonda an Mrs. Bhagyalakshmi
Beeram, on the spot and critically injuring Ramkishore Sadhu and Sripal Reddy.
Later on, Ramkishore Sadhu was pronounced dead on 9/27/09 at MGH, Boston, and
Sripalreddy is recovering from a critical surgery to his spinal cord. |
As soon as the news broke, TEAM volunteers,
Dr. Venu Bathina , Mohan Nannapaneni, Dr. Surya Chundru, Murthy Kanneganti,
and Suneel Gundavelli, rushed to the hospitals to help the victims and their
families. TANA spread the news among the Indian community and sought
donations to help the victims. Several donors contributed generously to raise
nearly $20,000. The leadership, and the members of TAGB, TACT, and TANA volunteered tirelessly to support the
survivors and the families of the victims. Mohan Nannapaneni & Koteshwara
Rao Kandukuri travelled to the Indian Embassy in New York to get the required
permits. A wake service was held on 10/2/09. Nearly 150 people came from
within the local community and throughout the USA. Ramkishore's body was sent
to his parents. After a service,
Mr.& Mrs. Enukonda were cremated at at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, MA on
10/06/09. TANA contributed $19,268.71 and committed to assist Sripal Reddy
during his recovery. Prakash Reddy, Surya Jayanthi, Rao Yalamanchili, Purna
Rao, Divakar Jandhyam, Madhava Reddy, Ram Bhakar Noduri, Venkat Dyavanapalli,
and Dr. Bhavani Bathina are among the several people that volunteered to
help. Ramkishore donated several of his vital organs to New England Organ
Bank, leaving a remarkable impression on indian community at large. Mohan Nannapaneni continued helping
Ramkishore’s parents by filining necessary documents with the probate court,
talking adminstrator’s role of Ramakishore’s bank accounts, protecting his
hard-earned money from creditors and finally transfered such fund to his
parents. |
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A Telugu
Software professional, S.N.V
coming to New York, was arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement
officials in NY airport for an inappropriate entry. According to him and his
parents, he has been cheated by an Indian consulting company in Bangalore. |
The panic, retired, middle class parents calls desperately
calls TANA for help. TANA paid $1,000 to provide legal help to SNV. Mohan
Nannapaneni, traveled to NY, hired an attorney to defend the case, provided
additional financial help to VSN. After nearly 8 months, VSN has been successfully
deported back to India. VSN rejoined his family. |
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A toddler girl
suddenly died with an unknown illness with a week after coming from India to
join her parents in Denver, CO on 05/21/2009. Shocked parents, who were new
to that place needed community support. |
Mohan Nannapaneni, Dr. Lokes Edara
along with local TEAM Square Volunteers Mastan Shaik and Anand Mikkilineni
helped the parents in arranging Funeral services. |
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An toddler girl
was killed in an auto accident in a parking lot of an apartment complex in
GA. |
As soon as TEAM Square came to know about this incident, our
volunteers and Life Members, Purna Vaarapaneni, Gopichand Duggirala, Dr.
Sambasiva Rao and Madhu Tata, rushed to the accident location to support and
comfort the shocked parents. TEAM Square provided some guidance in seeking
legal help and assisted the family during the trauma. |
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Supriya, H1 Visa holder, a native of
Hyderabad committed suicide on 11/06/09 in her apartment in Greensboro, NC. |
Victim’s friend Harith and relative
Praveen Nori contacted TANA East Regional Director, Subba Rao Kolla, for TANA
logistical help in sending body to India. TANA Secretary, Mohan Nannapaneni
provided necessary info, which helped to reduce funeral home expenses. Mohan
Nannapaneni and Subba Rao Kolla worked with Indian Embassy in Washington DC
to obtain permits to transport her body to India. Ram Yalamanchili, TANA
Treasurer provided Air lines info. Victim’s husband covered all expenses. |
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Deepthi, a recent
graduate, working at UNC, Chapelhill, NC committed
suicide on 12/09/09. |
TANA Office Manager got the call for help. TANA Secretary Mohan Nannapaneni, assisted Mr. Roy Matena, who has spent a significant amount of time
helping to transport Deepthi's body to India. Mohan
Nannapaneni coordinated with Indian Embassy, Air India and expedited the
process. |
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Another Telugu, young woman, committed suicide with
distress at her home in Columbia, SC,
Jan 2010. Panic husband seeks help. |
Dr. Raghu Korrapati, Chair Person,
TANA Academic Affairs rushed to their home. Provided all necessary guidance,
and support to send her body to India for cremation. Mohan Nannapaneni &
Sudhakar Korrapati assisted Raghu. |
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Mrs. Subbalakshamamma Palle, 54 yrs, who came to Morrisville,
North Carolina, USA from Nandayala, AP to visit her
daughter’s family died in a road accident on Tuesday, December 9th,
2009 at 9:00 PM. She went for a walk nearby her daughter’s residence and
while crossing the road, she was hit by a car and died on the spot. Subbalakshmamma is supposed to leave for Nandyala in ten days. |
Jayaram Komati, TANA president expressed his deepest
condolences to the Palle family. TANA Team Square committee Chair Srinivas Vallurupalli, TANA Secretary Mohan Nannapaneni and Executive Vice-President Prasad Thotakura made necessary
arrangements to send Mrs. Palle's body to Nandyala. |
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Prashanth Goinka, a 28 yrs old, MBA student got killed
in a store robbery in Oklahoma City on Sunday, March 20th around
7:15 PM. He came from Hyderabad to International Technological University,
Sunnyvale, California two months ago to pursue MBA degree. He went to Oklahoma
City just three days ago to explore some job opportunities and found a
part-time job in one of the convenience stores. Two men walked in to the
store as customers, stole the cash from the cash register and gunned down
Prasanth. The case is under investigation. |
TANA Executive Vice President, Prasad Thotakura was in
constant touch with the parents of Prasanth, Oklahoma City police department,
the Chief Medical Officer and the Indian Consulate authorities and made all
necessary arrangements to send the deceased to Hyderabad. Prasanth’s
body was brought to Dallas and then sent to Indian within four days of the
incident. TANA has raised enough funds to cover the expenses $5,465.00, from
the generous donors. TANA President Jayaram Komati and Secretary Mohan
Nannapaneni expressed their deepest condolences to the family of Prasanth. |
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Mrs. Kamala,
a mother of a Telugu Family living in VA came from India to visit her son,
who recently had a baby. She passed away with an unexpected illness in her
brain. The shocked family called TANA for assistance in sending her body to
India for cremation. |
Secretary, Mohan Nannapaneni
provided all necessary information. TANA Regional Director, Subba Rao Kolla
coordinated with the family, went to the Indian embassy to obtain documents
to send Mrs. Kamala’s body to India. |
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Six Telugu students involved in auto accident in West Virginia. One
died instantly. Praneetha
Devi Kasani, (21 years), a Graduate student of
Wright State University, Ohio. She went to West Virginia along with her
friends and while coming back to Ohio, their car met with an accident around
6:45 AM on 05/06/2010 on I-64 in Beckley, WV. Sashi Venkata Kondury (22), Harika Vangeti (22),
Pavan Kumar Ragavajhala(23),
Praneetha Devi Kasani (21) are from WSU, OH and Puneeth Reddy Amarella
(22), and Santosh Maddali (22)
are from University of Northern Virginia. Praneetha
got ejected from the car and died instantly. Other passengers survived with
some minor/major injuries. |
Prasad Thotakura, Executive Vice
President, Mohan Nannapaneni, Secretary, Naren Kodali,
Trustee, Subba Rao Kolla, Regional Director and several
TANA Team Square volunteers including Dr. Rajendra
Prasad Valiveti of West Virginia
helped in rescue efforts. President of Indian Students Association of
Rice State University, Raghu Bhagavatula,
and other students including Rajesh Yarlagadda, Leela Krishna also
assisted the survivors. Jayaram Komati, TANA President and
all other Governing Board members of TANA offered their deepest condolences
to Kasani family. Prasad Thotakura coordinated with the local volunteers,
families and relatives of the students and made all arrangements in sending
the body to India. TANA is took care of all expenses from its TEAM Square
funds to send the body of Praneetha to India. |
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Naresh Naidu, 24 yrs, native of Bangalore,
severely injured in a car accident on 05/11/2010near
Corpus Christie, Texas died on 05/12/2010. Naresh just graduated with MBA
from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He and his friend Naveen came to
Texas to visit their friend Praduymna, who was
driving the car lost control of it and crashed in to an electric pole. Pradyumna and Naveen were escaped with minor injuries.
But Naresh, who was in back seat suffered with severe head injuries and was
taken to Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. |
TANA Executive Vice-President Prasad Thotakura is in touch
with local hospital authorities and the Indian Consulate office in Houston to
send the remains of Naresh Naidu to India. Prof. Anantha Babbili,
Dr. Ram Mulukutla, Costal Bend India Association,
Indian Students Association members, Aravind , Vikram and several other TANA
Team Square members are helping with the arrangements. TANA President, Jayaram Komati, Secretary Mohan Nannapaneni,
Murali Vennam, South West Regional Director and all other Governing Board
members expressed their deepest condolences to the Naidu family. TANA has
disbursed required money from its TEAM Square funds to send Naresh’s body to his parents in India. |
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Adarsh Johnson, 22 yrs, graduate student of
University of Mary Hardin Baylor (UMHB), Belton City, Texas was found
dead on June 12, 2010 Saturday night in a pond at the University Campus. As
per Benton Police department’s initial report there is no indication of any
foul play in this drowning accident. |
Team Square volunteers and
Sukumar Selvam, cousin of Adarsh
who lives in Atlanta, Dr. YV Rao from Temple City, Murali Vennam, TANA
Southwest Regional Director and friends of Adarsh, Ajay, Jag and Sunny assisted in sending Adarsh’s body to India. University of Mary Hardin Baylor
contributed $5,000 for this cause. |
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Sasi
Sekhar Kunta, A 26 year old Vijayawada
Native, and a Ph. D in computer
science student at University of Vermont, drowned after jumping from a bridge into the
Winooski River for swimming on June 6th, 2010. Hi body was
recovered on the next day moring. Shocked parents
and friends called TANA for assistance. |
Mohan Nannapaneni
responded to the call, guided TEAM
Square volunteers, coordinated with the funeral home and Indian consulate. Mohan Nutakki, Muthy Kanneganti and Sasi’s Friends
Ambu made necessary arrangements for the wake
services. University of Vermont’s insurance covered all the expenses to
transport Sasi’s body to India. With the TEAM
Square help, Sasi’s body was able to reach India within four days from the incident. |
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A 2 year old boy, Sujay
befall a fateful accident on Saturday, May 22, 2010 while his parents who
live in Massachusetts, were visiting their friends in Hartford CT. Sujay fell through a screen window of a second floor of
an apartment building and died with critical injuries. |
Rao Yalamanchili,
President of Telugu Association of Connecticut along with other TEAM Square
volunteers and friends assisted the family in making necessary arrangements
for Sujay’s funeral service. |
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Software
engineer Jayanth Bheemireddy (30),
riding a bike and returning home after watching a weekend football match died
when he rammed a road median near his residence at Virginia on Sunday June 13th,
2010. |
Jayant's employer, Ram Kancherla of Computech
paid all expenditures. Jayanth’s friend Vijay Marupudi
traveled to VA to assist local volunteers and friends. Satyanarayana Reddy
Kandimalla, Ram Mohan Konda, Chittaranjan Reddy Nallu, Rajesh Madireddy, TEAM
Square volunteers Trilok Kantheti, Subba Kolla, Jayanth’s
friends Sathya Raman, Sridhar, Vittal,
Harsha helped sending the body of Jayanth to India.
Mohan Nannapaneni explained Jayant's friends in a conference call how to take care
of final issues such as Jayanth’s Bank
account, credit cards etc..Jayanth’s body was sent
to his parents within five days from the date of incident. |
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Lakshmi R, and
her son were mistreated by their house owners, who hired Lakshmi as housemaid
in NY. Her panic husband called TANA for help, as Lakshmi’s
passport was taken away by the house owners and she and her son have no
money, transportation or place to go. |
TEAM Square volunteers provided her temporary shelter. Mohan
Nannapaneni sought Indian embassy’s help. The embassy provided necessary
documents and made arrangements, sent her back safely to Visakhapatnam. Her
husband, Simhadri thanked TANA for the help and shelter
provided by TEAM Square volunteers. |
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Arun
Kumar Narote, 26 yrs, M.S student at
Stratford University, VA was shot dead in
a grocery store in Bridgeport, CT, where he has been working on a part
time jobs to support his educational expenses. As per preliminary police
reports, on Monday, July 12th around 9:30 PM, two masked men walked in to
"Norman Grocery Store" where Arun Kumar was working as a store
clerk, robbed the cash and shot him in the head, though there was no
resistance found. The suspects were attested and the case is under
investigation. |
Prasad Thotakura, responded to the call from his friends,
spoke with Arun’s family members and made necessary
arrangements to complete the formalities to send the body to India. Mohan
Nannapaneni and Dr. Naren Kodali, Arun’s friends
Karthik, Revanth coordinated with Stratford
University and Funeral home. Stratford University generously committed to contributing
$5,000 towards transportation charges. TANA raised and contributed $2,200 for
this cause. |
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Srikanth Badrinath Eluri a 36 year old Software Engineer
shockingly expired with a massive stroke. His family and friends contacted
TANA for help in transporting his body to India. |
Dr. Hanumaiah Bandla asked TEAM
Square to assist Mr. Eluri’s family. Mohan
Nannapaneni assisted the family and friends from the time of the call
received till Mr. Eluri reached India. Srikanth’s friends Prasad Kasireddy,
Chaitanya, Vidya Sagar and Hari helped the family and TEAM Square at their
best possible efforts. Mohan Nannapaneni coordinated with the Indian
consulate, the Funeral home, and the family to expedite the process. Despite
of their hectic schedule on a weekend, the officials of the Indian consulate
Mr. Parmod Bajaj and Mrs. Abraham were kind enough in going extra mile in
granting permits. The family and the employer of Mr. Badrinath
took care of all the expenses. TANA TEAM Square provided a timely, efficient
and seamless assistance to send Mr. Eluri to India
within four days of his death. The family of Badrinath
thanked TANA, TEAM Square and Indian Consulate for helping |
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Kalpana Immidisetty, a 25 year old young woman passed away with a
premature delivery of her pregnancy on July 15th, 2010 in Raleigh
NC. Shocked husband and his best friend Murali Mahesh called TANA TEAM Square
for assistance. Kaplana
is survived by her husband Kiran and a 2 year old son. They have recently
moved to Raleigh, NC from California and do not have many friends or other
family members around to help them. |
Mohan Nannapaneni responded to the request and assisted
throughout the process of transporting her body to India for cremation. TEAM
Square volunteers Suresh Kakarala, Rajesh Yarlagadda visited the family and
provided guidance and assistance. Mohan Nannapaneni coordinated with the
family, funeral home and the consulate to expedite the process. The family
took care of expenses. TEAM Square is very instrumental in providing
necessary assistance and the family is very much appreciative of TEAM Square’s
help. |
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RG,
a recent graduate was arrested and detained by the Police Department of
Columbia in internet predator sting operation. Panic parents called TANA for
help. |
Mohan Nannapaneni, assisted the family members finding a
attorney to defend RG. TEAM Square volunteer, Sudhakar and Raghu Korrapati
provided temporary transportation and assistance to RG. Parents are very
thankful to TANA. |
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Gotham Joseph Smiles, 24 yrs, a student at Louisiana State University
(LSU) died in a water rafting accident on Sat., 09/04/2010. He went to
Mississippi along with eight other friends to experience a Canoe trip and
drowned in water when their boat flipped.
Joseph is a native of Visakhapatnam, came to USA in January 2009 and
joined LSU to pursue Masters in Engineering and he is in the last semester to
complete his education |
Prasad Thotakura made all arrangements and sent Josephs body
to his parents in Visakhapatnam. TANA raised funds and paid all the expenses
for this cause. TEAM Square volunteers, Venkata Ramana Yaarlagadda,
Nani Anne in Jackson, MS provided local assistance to Josephs friends and
relatives. David Bandi and Sameer Nandar were other volunteers assisted in making necessary
arrangements. |
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Jaweed Iqbal, 36 year
old Software Engineer passed away with massive stroke Dover, NH After
performing the Mid-day prayer in a mosque. He came from very poor family and
lost his father when he was young. His mother brought him up with lot of hardships.He came to USA with the help of his friends and
relatives, and lots of hope. He is survived by a 9 month pregnant wife, mother
and brother who all depend on him. |
With the tough job market, Jaweed
was struggling in between jobs and had no savings left to take care of his
family. His friends raised some money to cover his funeral expense. TANA TEAM
Square contributed $1,000 for the funeral expenses. |
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Mohan
Saladi, 42 years, Ashburn, VA died with heart
attack on Saturday, 9/18/10. He the only source of income for his family. He
recently bought a home and working in Bethesda, MD as an IT consultant. He is
a native of Kakinada, AP |
Local Team square volunteers, Subbarao Kolla, Vijay Gudiseva, Ravi Gourineni visited their home and provided assistance,
necessary guidance and coordinated with the funeral home to send Mohan’s body
to India. |
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A doctor from Maryland brought a
girl from Hyderabad on a finance visa and
married her in April 2010. Later he wants to get rid of her as she did
not brought money/dowry and gave her lot of trouble. He threw her out of his house.
The poor lady is new to this country and has no relatives or friends here in
the USA. Neighbors in the same community gave her shelter and made a
complaint to police. She later approached TANA for help. |
The Chair of TANA Immigration and Legal assistance committee,
Lakshmi Devineni provided her legal guidance. The court in Maryland awarded
the victim a reinstatement of residence and a financial compensation for the
distress. TANA provided guidance that subsequently helped her settling down
in her life. |
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Rajendra Prasad Racherla, 28 yrs, a software engineer passed away in Austin, TX on 10/17/2011
due to natural causes. Racherla was suffering from
severe cold, diagnosed with swelling in his brain which took him in to coma and
later on died. He hailed from Choppadandi of Karimnagar district, and working in the USA for the last
3 years. Rajendra Prasad got married only six
months ago and his wife joined him only three months ago. |
Racherla family contacted and requested TANA
officials to send the deceased to Karimnagar. TANA
Team Square volunteers Praveen Nuthulapati, Ashok Gunda,
Murali Vennam, TANA Southwest Regional Director, Ram Yalamanchili, TANA
Treasurer assisted the Racherla’s family. Prasad
Thotakura, TANA Executive Vice President is coordinated the efforts to get all the needed documents
through State Government sources and the Indian Consulate at Houston office
and sent Rajendra’s body to India. |
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Byreddy Venkata Sivamma, a visiting parent passed away with a massive
stroke on the airplane 2 hours before landing in Chicago on 10/24/2010.
Shocked family and friends called TAAN for help. |
TANA regional director Murali Meraga and EVP, Prasad
Thotakura and TEAM Square volunteer Murali Dhulipalla coordinated and
assisted with the family members to send Mrs. Byreddy’s
body to India. TEAM Square not only assisted them, but also saved several
thousands of dollars in the transportation charges. |
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Rajneesh
K Kambham, a 28 year old Software professional
found dead after few days in his apartment in Jersey City, NJ on 10/25/2010.
The cause of the death is unknown but suspected to be a suicide. The shocked
parents and friends called TANA for assistance in sending the body to India. |
Rajneesh had no insurances. TANA’s secretary Mohan
Nannapaneni, negotiated with his employer, who further agreed to contribute
$2,000. TANA contributed the remaining and made all necessary arrangements
for Rajneesh cremation. |
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Aswani Korrapati, a 28 year
old committed suicide at her residence in Urbana Champagne, IL on 10/29/2010. Shocked husband and her
parents called TANA for assistance. |
TEAM Square responded and made all necessary arrangements to
transport her Aswani’s body to her native place in
Ongole. TANA Regional Director, Murali Meraga assisted travelled to the
consulate and get the paper work done. Mohan Nannapaneni coordinated all the
efforts. With the great efforts of TEAM Square we Aswani’s
body departed to India, within 22 hours of her death. |
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Satyanarayana
Kottapally, a visiting parent passed away with
cardiovascular disease on 01/11/2010 in Troy, MI. His son, has been going
through a job recession and struggling to survive with a family of four,
called TANA for assistance. |
TANA generously responded and contributed towards the
transportation of Satyanarayana’s body to
Hyderabad. President Jayaram Komati
and Secretary Mohan Nannapaneni
assisted Kottapall’s family in making necessary arrangement. |
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Manoj
Venkata Reddy Gudla, 30 year old IT professional in |
TANA TEAM Square raised and contributed $2,450 to cover Manoj’s expensed towards his transportation to India. |
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Twins, Archana and Arpana Gambraopet, 24 year old,
graduate students of Murray State University were critically injured in a
tragic accident in Nashville, TN. Aparna was killed and Archana was critically
injured. A total five Telugu people in the car returning form an event in
Nashville Tennessee, when their car was ran over by a 18 wheeler truck when
trying to exit into the freeway. Other three students were safe. |
TEAM Square responded immediately, Mohan Nannapaneni
coordinated with their parents, and local TEAM Square volunteers, made all
necessary arrangements, contributed towards all transportation cost and sent Aparna’s body to India. TEAM Square volunteer, Ashok
Kolla travelled to Nashville from California to assist TEAM Square. Local
volunteers Venkat Duddukuri, Madhu Paruchuri assisted the family and friends.
A long time TANA life member Madhu Paruchuri hosted and tirelessly assisted Gambhiraopet’s family while Archana is recovering at
Vanderbilt Hospital. |
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Vijay
Bhaskar Reddy Reddivari, 28 year old Software professional, met an fatal car
accident and dead at 5 AM on 11/17/2011 near Rock Springs, WY. He was moving from Portland
OR, to a new employment location in
New Jersey. Shocked friends and family called TANA for help. |
Jayaram Komati, Mohan
Nannapaneni & Satish Vemana responded to the request and coordinated with
the family, friends, Indian consulate, funeral home, made all necessary
arrangements and shipped Vijay’s body to India. Vijay’s employer Jagadish
Yalamanchili contributed for the transportation expenses. |
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Ramesh
Kannedhara, a middle aged software professional had
a massive stoke while he was waiting for his flight at San Jose airport on
12/16/2010. He has been living in Fremont, CA alone. His family lives in
Hyderabad. |
Veeru Vuppala, Niranjan Edara & Dr. Lokeswara Rao Edara,
responded to the request of his family, coordinated with the funeral home,
Indian embassy, family and assisted to transport Ramesh’s
body to Hyderabad. |
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A 42-year-old mother from Jacksonville, Fla., and
her 7-year-old son were killed and three other family members were injured
critically in an accident involving a minivan and a freightliner big rig on
01/04/2011 near Fostoria, OH. Anupama was pronounced dead at the scene,
according to the Ohio Highway Patrol Bowling Green Post. |
TEAM Square volunteer Neelima Nyayapathi
visited the hospital and provided temporary assistance to the other family
members and friends of Anupama |
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Ashok Thodupunoori, a 53 year old, man
died with massive stroke while working at a motel in Long Island, NY on 01/09/2011. He came to USA
with lots of hopes, but ended his dreams unrealized. He had left no money as
he struggled all along to meet his living expenses. The motel owned was
merciless and refused to contribute any money. |
Mohan Nannapaneni responded to the request of Ahsok’s family members. Ashoks
distant relatives Ravi Karingula and Vijay
travelled from other places, contributed money and assisted Mohan Nannapaneni
in making arrangement to send Ahok’s body to India.
TANA contributed $1,000 from TEAM Square funds. |
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Uma Maheshwari Kandual, 28 yearl old young lady passed away soon after the delivery
of her first child in Round Rock, Texas on 01/07/2011. Devastated husband and
friends called TANA for assistance. |
Executive vice President, Prasad Thotakura, Treasurer Ram
Yalamanchili and Regional director Murali Vennam coordinated with the family,
funeral home, Indian consulate and made all necessary arrangements to send Uma’s body to India. The family and friends of Kandula
thanked TEAM Square for instant response and help. |
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Srinivas
Tulluri, 38 yrs, a software engineer passed away in
Tampa, FL on 01/17/2011 due to Pneumonia.
Srinivas was suffering from severe cold and cough for few days and his wife
admitted him in the hospital when he had a trouble breathing. Srinivas was
unable to recover and later on pronounced dead. Srinivas’s
family sought TANA’s help. |
Prasad Thotakura & Mohan Nannapaneni coordinated with Tulluru’s family, Funeral home, India consulate and made
all necessary arrangement to send Srinivas’s body
to India. TEAM Square Volunteers, Srinivas Jarugula, Chandu Talla made
arrangements for wake service and assisted Tulluru’s
wife and children in moving back to India. TANA contributed $ 1,000 from TEAM
Square funds as Srinivas struggled between jobs with the recession. |
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A marital
dispute between a couple, led to a domestic violence scene at a mall in
Chicago. Husband was arrested and taken away. The girl (Naga P) needed
help desperately, as she came from India only a month ago. |
Mohan received the call and provided immediate guidance and
coordinated with Hema Kanuru, who rushed to the place, provided her temporary
accommodation and arranged transportation to her relatives in Capitol are. |
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Jayamma Challagundla, a
visiting parent suddenly got sick and died on 03/19/2011. She had some dental
procedure in India, which was believed as cause of infection in her brain. |
Mohan Nannapaneni, coordinated with Venkat & Kiran , and
assisted the family in sending body to India. We have provided all the
guidance, family paid the expenses. |
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Venkat
Koka, a 26 year old, graduate student at SoutheastMissouri
State University died suddenly on
03/16/2011. Cause of the death is unknown and is under investigation. |
Mohan Nannapaneni coordinated with Nagesh Kolli (PA) and made
all necessary arrangements to transport the body to India. The University
Insurance covered the expenses. TEAM Square saved the family thousands of
dollars by providing right guidance. |
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Sreelata V, a 31 year old mother
of two infant children, committed suicide in Waukesha, WI on 3/28/2011. Her
devastated husband called TANA for help. |
TEAM Square volunteers, Mohan Nannapaneni, Prasad Thotakura
and Veeru Vuppala coordinated with the family and made all necessary
arrangement to transport her body to Hyderabad. We have not only assisted the
family, but also saved then a significant amount of money. |
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Lakshmi.V, a 33 old young, recent
immigrant to Alberta, Canada died suddenly with undetermined cause on
03/29/2011. Shocked husband called TANA for help is sending her body to
India. They hailed from a middle class family and yet to settle in Canada. |
TANA, former President Mallikharjuna Rao along with the help
of his friends and relatives, raised $4,600 for this cause. Prasad S
Kodali flown from San Francisco, CA, made necessary arrangements. TANA
contributed $4,300. |
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US
department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement
raided and closed Tri Valley University on 01/18/2011. 155 students directly
got effected. Among them, more than 1000 students are from Andhra Pradesh.
Some of the students were arrested and some of them were tagged with
electronic devices. Panic students called TANA for help. |
President Jayaram Komati, responded immediately and negotiated
with few immigration attorneys across the country to defend students at a
very nominal fee. Jayaram Komati, Veeru Vuppala, Ashok Kolla and many other
TANA members made representation to Indian consulate in San Francisco and
some congress representatives. Mohan Nannapaneni, Vasu Chinna, Jai Kureti and
many students made a representation to Mr. S.M. Krishna, Union Minister for
External Affairs in New York. TANA further sought legal help from many leading
immigration law firms and provided legal assistance to many students. TANA,
with the generous help of attorneys Kalpana Peddibhotla
and Aswani Bhakre successfully removed the electronic tracking
collars, which traumatized the students. Satish Vemana, Subba Rao Kolla, Dr, Naren Kodali and many other TANA
members met Indian Ambassador in Washington DC, to seek expedited assistance
to the effected students. TANA not only contributed money in providing legal
help, but also continuously provided proper guidance, and encouragement to
the students. Attorneys Sheela Murthy, Prashanthi Reddy, Rajiv Khanna
provided legal assistance to the students very generously. |
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HS, 27yrs, a native of Khammam Dist, passed away in Austin,
TX on 04/04/2011. Her husband went
into shock after seeing her sudden death and is recovering slowly. Police are
investigating the case, so far no foul play found. This young couple got
married only for few months. |
A
team of TANA volunteers are helping with the logistics to send the remains of
Haritha to Hyderabad. TANA Executive Vice President, Prasad Thotakura is
coordinating the efforts. |
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Chaitanya S Kantubukta, a 26 year old Software Professional, met an
accident and was killed at the scene on 04/11/2011 in Washington County,
Arkansas state. According to the police report, another car going in opposit
direction, lost control, corss meridian and crashed head-on to Chaitanya’s car. |
TANA’s Executive
Vice President Prasad Thotakura responded to the call from Chaitanya’s
relatives, coordinated with the family, friends, funeral home and made
necessary arrangements to send Chaitanya’s body to his parents in
Visakhapatnam. |
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Four graduate students, Srupen Reddy Velumula (24), Sri Harsha Chitturi
(22), Srikanth Ravi (21), Dheeraj Gudlawar (23) from Missouri University of
S&T were killed Sunday morning (May 8, 2011) in a traffic accident on
Highway 42 near Iberia, MO. A fifth Missouri S&T student, Murali Bottu (22) was seriously injured. According to the
Missouri State Highway Patrol's report , the accident occurred around 10:40
a.m. Sunday morning when a 1997 Toyota Camry driven by S&T student Murali
traveling west on Hwy 42, crossed the center line. Murali’s
vehicle turned sideways in the roadway and was directly struck on the
passenger side by a 2000 Chevrolet Silverado. Panic friends and family
members called TANA for Help. |
TANA President
Jayaram Komati & Secretary Mohan Nannapaneni responded to the calls.
Mohan Nannapaneni, coordinated with the family members, friends, University
officials, Funeral homes and the Indian consulate. TEAM Square provided all
necessary guidance to expedite the process. TEAM Square volunteers, Raja
Surapaneni, St. Louis Telugu Association President Rajanikanth
Gangavarapu, Chandra Gummi, Ram mohan
Paduru travelled to Camdenton immediately and assisted the family members and
TEAM Square efforts. Srinivas Dondapati
travelled from Chicago and assisted the process all along. He traveled back
to Chicago to obtain consulate permits. Mohan Nannapaneni spoke wiht the
MUS&T officials to so that the student’s insurance cover the
transportation expenses. He further coordinated with the consulate and
Funeral homes to make ncessary transportation arrangements. The bodies were
shipped to India on Wednewsday, May 11th, at 2.45 PM from Chicago. |
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Nilish Pillai, 25 year old, An aspiring Indian Dentist, San
Francisco resident killed, on Sunday, 12/29/2009 in Wood County's Freedom, OH when his car and a pickup
collided on snow-slickened U.S. 6, the Ohio Highway. Nilesh was doing his Dentistry at
University of the Pacific: Dugoni
School of Dentistry
SFO, CA
and visiting his sister in OH. |
TEAM Square
responded to the incident immediately. TEAM Square volunteer Dr. Manideepthi
Pemmaraju rushed to hopital and coordinated the efforts in sending Nilish’s
body to India. Mohan Nannapaneni assisted the family members. |
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Dr. Chandra Sekhar
Vavilala,
36, post-doctoral fellow in Chemistry, a native of Ongole, AP struck by car and
killed in New Orleans, LA on Thursday, February 19th 2010, at 6:30
PM. He was struck by a car and killed on the scene while he was going to
University on a bicycle. Dr. Vavilala earned a Ph.D
in Chemistry and moved to Princeton University, New Jersey, USA in 2007. He
relocated to New Orleans in January 2009 to work as a research scholar in the
Dept. of Chemistry at Tulane University. |
TANA Executive Vice President, Prasad
Thotakura, TANA Secretary Mohan
Nannapaneni, TANA South West Regional
Director Murali Vennam and a team of TEAM Square volunteers assisted Dr. Vavila’s family and made all necessary arrangements to
send his body to India. TANA raised and contributed $7,000 for this cause. |
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Venkata
Subba Reddy Cuttamanchi, 35 yrs, a
software engineer, native of Chittoor, AP was shot
dead by a group of people in Southfield near Detroit on June 16th,
2010 around 2:00 AM. Venkat Reddy met a 23 year old Mexican woman through
Internet, had a meal at Wendy’s restaurant, and drove to a nearby EZ Rest
motel around 2:00 AM. This woman’s boyfriend and four other cronies who were
already waiting at the motel robbed Venkat and shot him to death. People who
saw this shooting called police. Police responded in no time and arrested all
five people who involved in the homicide. |
Several
friends of Venkat Reddy contacted Prasad Thotakura, Executive Vice-president
of TANA who helped with the process to send the deceased to India. |
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A
tragic accident on a beach in Monterey Bay/Carmel area, where a huge wave
pulled several people in to the ocean on 03/07/2010 weekend in two separate
areas of the Beach. A Telugu family mother, daughter and grandmother
standing by the water edge were pulled in by this huge wave into the
riptides. An American brave man Mr. Bill Walker, who saw this jumped into the water and
rescued the little girl and the grandmother who were treated in the
hospital. He then went after the mother who got pulled by another huge
wave and got caught up in the rip-tides. Sadly Mr. Walker was caught in the
riptide and drowned and rangers were able to get the mother out of the
water. She was taken to the hospital but did not survive. |
TANA
President Jayaram Komati, TEASM Square Committee Chair, Srinivas Valluripalli
and TANA Joint Secretary, Veeru Uppala had been in touch with Family and
friends and have offered assistance. TANA TEAM Square worked with
Funeral Home to made the arrangements to transfer the body to India.
She was taken off life support yesterday and the family was gracious enough
to do organ donation. TANA
graciously recognizing the sacrifice of his life in saving Telugu people, Mr.
Bill Walker at TANA 18th National Conference in Santa Clara. |
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www.tana.org/webfiles/docs/TEAMVolunteers.htm
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Joining our TEAM?
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Nannapaneni, team@tana.org
Tel:(508)
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