During the lockdown days of 2021, when the Corona pandemic badly hit the city of Durgapur and lockdown was strictly implemented, social welfare organization Durgapur Adda Young Association took a special initiative to distribute food packets for the family of the patients admitted in Durgapur Sub Divisional Hospital.
The project named, ‘Aharjo’ was started from 14th May 2021 and continued till June 3rd 2021; after the lockdown was almost lifted.
Every day between 8 pm and 8:30 pm, the members go to the hospital premises and hand over, Ruti, Vegetable or Egg curry and water bottle to the patient’s family. Here it must be mentioned, that this entire food items were being prepared at home by the members of the organization.
The organization chose to distribute food during night only because the Lockdown forced the nearby shops to shut down from 6 pm and hence the patients’ family had to face immense difficulty in procuring dinner. And who not knows, that patients coming to government hospitals are very poor in most of the cases.
On an average 20 people were given food packets everyday for these 51 days.