Lawyer helps poor kids after daily star report

A report published in The Daily Star on July 5 this year brought help to six kids and their mothers of two poor families at two villages in the Teesta River basin in Lalmonirhat yesterday.

Reading the news headlined “Malnutrition hits poor children in Lalmonirhat,” Advocate Asfa Hussain, a Supreme Court lawyer, gave them food, vitamin syrups and clothes.

“We can't provide nourishing food to our children, so they have become malnourished, which is hampering their normal growth,” said Salma's mother Alokjahan Begum.

Salma Akhter Amena, a student of Class III at a local government primary school, said, “We have got different food items, new dresses and vitamin syrup, we are very happy.” “We need nourishing foods, but our poor parents cannot provide these as their earning is insufficient for maintaining the family,” she added.

Advocate Asfa Hussain said she will send more nourishing food items for these kids. “I feel happy for donating a little to help these malnutrition affected kids,” she said, expressing her thanks to The Daily Star.