Daringbadi: With the mercury level dipping, what the homeless need are a blanket, warm clothes and a temporary shelter.
Amidst the biting cold and chilly wind comes a heart-warming campaign to help the poor and the needy. A programme known as ‘Sita Biplab’ is spreading love and warmth among the poor with its catchy theme “If you have, give; take, if you don’t have.”
People in Daringbadi, the Kashmir of Odisha, have warmly welcomed the campaign and enthusiastically responded with blankets, shawls and warm clothes. In fact, donors’ response to the programme is overwhelming. Moreover, it has spread a feeling of brotherhood and sharing in the region.
“We could not afford new clothes. We were shivering in our old, torn blankets. But this programme has really saved us from the shivering cold,” a beneficiary said.
Moreover, the campaign has encouraged the people donate their unused, old and reach-me-down winter clothes so that people who had no winter clothes could use them.
Poor people from across Daringbadi and other interior regions including Sikabadi, Sirkabarg and Partamaha panchayat came to take the blankets and returned with smiling faces.
“We have no words to praise the initiative. It would have helped us more had it been organised some days earlier,” observed some beneficiaries.
On this occasion, known farmer Laxman Das, Gaurang Rout, Sudhansu Singh and some others of Indian Community Police and Azadi Thenga Bahini distributed the clothes to elderly people.
Earlier, members of Azadi Thenga Bahini took out a rally through the town urging the people to part with their unused winter wear.
Parttamaha sarpanch Phagu Pradhan, Belalsen Nayak, chairman of Antarang Yuva Sangha Dillip Kumar Sahu joined the campaign. On this occasion, community police personnel, who came from Bhubaneswar, made the people aware what community police is.
PNN