Tasaduq Hussain
Srinagar, May 27: Apart from delivering essential commodities, medicines, and oxygen, the valleys-based volunteers are home delivering the sanitary items renamed as “Dignity Kits” to females across Kashmir under the preventive restrictions to contain the Covid-19 spread.
Several volunteers and non-government organizations (NGOs) are home delivering the essential “Dignity Kits” to females of different age groups including those stuck at their homes and hospitals amid the ongoing deadly pandemic.
Valley-based NGOs and volunteers said that there is no denial in saying that females face challenges in availing the “Dignity Kits” amid the lockdown since they’re not able to visit the markets and also a shortage of money is the main concern.
Irfana Zargar, popularly known as Kashmir’s pad-woman, said that she is receiving regular requests from women across the valley for the sanitary pads.
“I have donated nearly 10,000 such kits to women and girls who face challenges in availing them amid the ongoing lockdown,” Zargar said.
Bashir Nadwi of Athrout said that “We have renamed the kit as “Dignity Kit’s” and it has been made available to be delivered to those in need.”
“Anyone approaching us is facilitated and mostly these requests are received from people living in remote places. A huge quantity of such kits was donated last year since this is a very important thing,” he said.
Umer Wani of “We The Helping Hands Foundation” said they receive phone calls on a regular basis and all those in need are facilitated at doors steps well on time.
He said that in Kashmir people wholeheartedly donate for all such causes and there would be possibly no one facing difficulties since the volunteers apart from having association with any NGO reach out to the people in need.
Azhar Peer a volunteer from border district Kupwara said that women in remote areas face immense difficulties in availing the sanitary items with very few resources and options available to them.
Peer said their group of volunteers will be donating nearly 2,000 packets in areas like Keran, Jumagand, and others in the coming days and verify whether there is more demand.
“As of now at least 200 identified marginalized families will be facilitated,” he said.
