Man Raises Funds to Buy Bike for Delivery Boy Who Delivered Tea Within 15 Minutes Amid Heavy Rains
Hyderabad: There’s no lack of good samaritans around us and this IT employee from Hyderabad has proved it true once again. Happiness knew no bounds for a food delivery boy working with Zomato when he received a new motorbike for his service. All this began when the delivery boy named Mohammad Aqeel, received an order request amid heavy rains from Robin Mukesh who lives in the Koti area of Hyderabad. Mukesh, an IT employee working in Hyderabad, ordered tea through the food delivery app.
Speaking to news agency ANI, Mukesh said, “I was working from home and at around 10 PM, I ordered tea from a hotel in Lakdi-Ka-Pool here in Hyderabad. As I was tracking my order, I noticed that the delivery executive, named Mohammad Aqeel, who was assigned my order, was in Mehdipatnam soon after I placed the order.” He further mentioned that within 15 minutes after he placed the order, he received a call from the delivery executive that the order has arrived at the location of his apartments.
My Order was delivered in a Lighting Speed by Mohd Aqeel, wrote Mukesh on his Facebook post.
“The delivery executive requested me to come downstairs, to receive the order. As I went downstairs, I saw a young boy who was completely drenched in water due to the rain and to my surprise, he came all the way on a bicycle in just 15 minutes. When asked how was he able to deliver the order so fast, he said that he has been delivering food orders over the bicycle for over a year,” he added.
Mukesh said that he took the permission of the delivery executive to click a picture. While conversing with Aqeel, he found out that the former was pursuing BTech. “I later uploaded the picture along with the whole story on a Facebook page related to food and travel. As soon as I uploaded the picture on social media, there have been numerous appreciation comments and several have come forward to help Aqeel,” he told.
“When I asked Aqeel about what help he needs, he said that it would be really great if he could get a motorbike. So immediately, I have initiated a fundraiser on Tuesday night and surprisingly till the next day morning, the target was reached in less than 12 hours. People have been donating to help Aqeel and out of all, a woman, who stays in the USA has sent around Rs 30,000.”
In just about 12 hours, Rs 73,000 were raised through online fundraising to help Aqeel. He said, “The fundraising was thereafter forcefully stopped as there were funds flowing in from everywhere.”
According to Mukesh, a TVS XL was bought for Aqeel and handed over to him along with all the necessary items required during the COVID-19 pandemic like masks, sanitizers, and a helmet for his bike.
“After buying all this, Rs 5,000 were left which were then used to pay Aqeel’s college fees,” Mukesh added. He said that he has been into social activities for the last two years and has been associated with several NGOs across the city. He said that it gave him great pleasure to help Aqeel with just a single post on Facebook. “Social media platforms can be put for a good use to help people who are in need instead of spitting hate,” he said.
Speaking to the news agency, Aqeel, thanked everyone who helped him in getting the bike and said that the help he has received has made him extremely happy and further mentioned that he would come forward and help people whenever possible.
(With ANI inputs)