Footsteps Foundation launched the event ‘A Heartwarming Winter’ to help out these underprivileged people adapt to the bitter cold by collecting and distributing warm clothes.
“Winter in Bangladesh is getting harsher by the year. With the conditions rapidly worsening, people, especially those who are in absolute poverty, have been suffering greatly. Therefore, for the second year in a row, youth empowered social business based organization Footsteps Foundation had launched the programme to help out these underprivileged people adapt to the bitter cold,” said Footsteps Foundation co-founder and president Shah Meem Rafayat Chowdhury.
On December 27, around 300 volunteers, the age range varying from 15 to 23, of the organization had collected donations in the forms of blankets, jackets, clothes and medicine from the households of Gulshan and Banani, he said.
The event was successful in collecting around 2000 blankets, 600 socks, 600 hats, 350 mosquito nets and 100 sacks of clothes. With these donations, a team of 14 members from the organization had set out for the winter donation deprived eastern district of Chuadanga on January 2, 2015.
Shah Meem Rafayat Chowdhury said, the donations were distributed in 10 villages, including Darshona and Choikuri village, and these donations were able to aid more than thousands of people in those rural areas.
The event ‘A Hearwarming Winter 2014’ was supported by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Dhaka, International Conservation Union (IUCN) Bangladesh, Nitol Insurance.
