Beneficiaries collect food packets distributed by ECS (Eleutheros Christian Society), Tuensang in collaboration with Goonj (an NGO based out of New Delhi) on July 2 and 3.
Tuensang, July 5 (MExN): Nuchi Chang is 84 and the only surviving member of the family. He sells kerosene in the daily bazaar in Tuensang and even this he cannot sell due to the pandemic lockdown imposed to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the state.
Deepak Pal from Assam could not return to Dibrugarh due to the travel restrictions and had been stranded in Tuensang for two months.
Like Nuchi and Deepak, though there are relaxations for daily wage earners during the lockdown, “the workers however are without jobs since there is apprehension to Covid in the minds of employers.”
Recognising the need to support such group of people in need, ECS (Eleutheros Christian Society), Tuensang in collaboration with Goonj (an NGO based out of New Delhi) distributed food packets to 300 “very needy people” in urban Tuensang on July 2 and 3.
Many of them who received the food packets were chana walas, cobblers, skilled workers and those selling cosmetics and general merchants, stated a press release received here. It said that one chana wala plans to leave Tuensang because ‘he feels schools will not open this year, and if that be so then he said the children will not come to buy the chanas.’ The food packet included 25 kilo Andra Rice, dal, sugar, tea and cooking oil.
