Covid 19/ Lock Down
- Donations to Research scholars, alumni, and students of Jadavpur University, Antodoy Anath Ashram, Dr. Prabhat Memorial Society, Pragya Cultural Centre working for tribal families of Mundapara who all were engaged in the struggle of combating hunger among the distressed.
- Monetary help to 12 individual beneficiaries of Sahajpath for their sustenance.
- Handing over food kits to 187 families of Bediapara colony and its adjoining areas, to 16 needy families of Dihi village at Sonarpur, South 24 Parganas, to the families of 40 students of Sahajpath and 10 students of Sarada Bidyapith.
- Amra Kojon, a social organisation in Purulia District used to offer lunch everyday day to 100 such people who live with hunger due to no earnings in the days of COVID-19. We contributed RS.4000/- being the cost of 2 days’ lunch for the said needy people.
- Somnath, Ajmeera, Puja, and Nayesha, the students under our Project Sahaj Path live at Lake Town Patipukur areas. In the time of partial lockdown, their guardians lost their earnings. We sent Rs.1000/- to each of the families to give them some relief in their difficult days.
- Dipannita Naskar, lost her father untimely due to Covid. We sent her Rs. 5000/- as immediate support.
Umphan
- Handing over collected clothes to Abha Mission for distribution at Kakdwip.
- Distribution of 50 new sarees to female inhabitants of Mundapara of Pailen Village, 24 Parganas (South)
- Emergency financial help to three students in south 24 Parganas whose houses were almost ruined.
- Restoration of roofs of 10 houses with new asbestos since the existing ones were blown away and damaged by the Amphan.
Yass
- We sent dry food packets containing Chiras, gur, Satu, packed milk, and biscuits to 100 such families through Change Initiatives who organised along with other organisations to distribute dry food kits to 700 families on 31st Mat,2021 at Maikhali, Neempith. We spent about Rs. 20000.00 in support of the humanitarian cause.
- Susmita Bera, then a Madhyamik examinee lives at Kuemuri village under Patharpratima Block in the Sunderbans which was completely inundated with water. Susmita with her family had to abandon their mud house which was about to collapse and took shelter on a cot on the ground floor of a pucca house which too was underwater. We remitted Rs.5000.00 through online banking as immediate help.
- Prabhat Memorial Society at Mathurapur in the South 24 Parganas had been ceaselessly working for the Yaas-affected people. Initially, immediately after Yaas left its devastating footprint in the areas, the Society used to feed daily about 1,500 homeless families. Thereafter, many of them left for their own houses and also to the shelter homes run by the government. Even then, they used to arrange food daily for about 150. To express our oneness with this noble cause, we contributed Rs.10000.00 to fulfill our responsibility to the suffering men, women, and children.
- On 8th June 2021, we sent 200 packets of dry food and 25 kgs of bleaching powder to the village of Kuemuri under the block of Pathar Pratima which was completely under water due to rising tide in the river due to cyclone Yaas some time back for distribution among the villagers. Kuemuri Pragatishil Samajseba Sangha, a local non-political organisation selected 200 villagers strictly on need-based priority and distributed the packets smoothly in compliance with COVID protocols.
Let us not forget that the inhabitants of the Sundarbans and its adjoining areas become victims of such natural calamities almost every year despite tall, empty promises from the hierarchy to build permanent cemented dams which can be the one and only solution to the routine catastrophes.
Whenever such calamities happen, we rush to the victims with relief materials desperately needed by them for their survival. But do we ever think that receiving the relief standing in a queue is how much humiliating for them to shedding their honour and dignity when they are in no way responsible.
We should always remember that it is a privilege for us to stand by the weeping humanity with utmost humility. It is the high time when all, irrespective of colour should raise their sustained voice in demand for permanent dams. Relief for a routine devastation due to apathy of the concerned authorities cannot be the solution.
