Tiffin money for flood victims
There is a noted saying “There's an opportunity in every crisis of life”.
This time, some children's little help puts smile on flood victims' faces.
Raising fund by saving the money they got for their tiffin, schoolchildren of Dinajpur's Birganj and Rangpur's Badarganj upazila came forward to feed the flood affected people of different shelters around their homes.
After torrential rain, a devastating flood hit Dinajpur on August 12.
The following day, floodwater inundated the entire district, but eight of 13 upazilas have been badly affected.
At least 30 people have been killed in floodwater, around 1.55 lakh families affected by the flood, 59299 houses and cropland of 1.21 lakh hectares were damaged, and 41,650 people have taken shelter at 218 centres and fishes of 12,000 ponds swam away.
Due to scanty relief supplies from the government, affluent people, different business and socio-cultural organisations have come forward to stand beside the flood-hit people, said locals.
Even the schoolchildren are not sitting home idle as the misery of the affected people has touched their hearts.
Sumaiya Sowmika, Puja Saha, Mahfuza Islam Moon and Saida Afroz, Class X and VIII students of Birganj Girls' School in Dinajpur, decided to help the children of local shelter houses.
On the first day, their collection was Tk 1,580, said Sumaiya.
“We bought biscuits and distributed it among the children of flood affected people who took shelter at the school,” she said.
Later, their parents and schoolteachers also started contributing, said Puja.
“We have distributed biscuits and other foods of Tk 5,000 among the affected children,” said Puja.
In the recent flood, Rangpur's Badarganj, Gangachara and Kaunia upazilas were affected badly.
In Badarganj, students of Kholahati Cantonment Public School and College in Dinajpur's Parbatipur raised funds from school tiffin money and distributed three kg of rice, three oral saline and Tk 100 to 330 to each flood affected family in Badarganj.
Principal of the institute Lt Col Imrul Kayes distributed those among the affected people on Friday.
Mozuna Begum, 50, of Kachabari village said she got relief after five days just for the kindness of these schoolchildren. “I bought salt, onion and green chilli with the Tk 100,” said a smiling Mozuna.
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