Members of Angami Women Organisation during their visit to Kohima Orphanage on January 24. (Photo courtesy: AWO)
Kohima, January 24 (MExN): The Officer Bearers of the Angami Women Organisation (AWO) visited the Kohima Orphanage and Destitute Home on January 24. There are currently 95 residents comprising of 69 boys and 26 girls at the orphanage.
The visit was planned sensing the impending stringent measures or possible lockdown that may be enforced due to the rising of COVID-19 positive cases in the State, inforemd a press release from AWO General Secretary Chozhüle Kikhi.
As a gesture of love and concern, food items such as rice, masoor dal, potato, onion, cooking oil, milk, tea leaf, sugar, tooth brushes, tooth paste and sweet have been given during the visits, it said.
Keeping in mind all the Government’s laid down SOPs, the items were given with no formal meeting or close contact, it pointed out.
As per the release, the Mother of the home had stated that the food items had arrived at the ‘nick of time.’
The Monday’s visit was the AWO’s second venture of the orphanage and was funded from the offering collected in an advent Christmas programme organised by the Angami Gazetted Officres’ Krotho (AGOK) on December 14, 2021, commemorating 50 years of Angami Public Organization (APO) existence, the release added.
