Rajagiri College provides supplies to guest workers

Kochi: The Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kalamassery, as part of its outreach activities, is providing food and sanitation supplies to 2,000 guest workers in Ernakulam in association with ITC Rural Development Trust, Kolkata.
The provision bag, made of cloth, contains rice, vegetables, cooking oil, salt, biscuits, wheat flour, pulses, masala, tea, sugar, soaps, sanitizers, masks and Covid-19 prevention instruction in Hindi and is sufficient enough for a four-member family for two weeks.Each kit weighs around 16kg and is worth around Rs 1,000.
A group of students and staff have been voluntarily working for the past one week to procure the items and pack the kits. These students include those who have reached the college from Africa, Europe and Syria as part of the student exchange programme of Rajagiri. They have delivered 1,000 kits to guest labourers in a colony in Perumbavoor on Saturday. The remaining kits were delivered in Aluva and Mulavukad regions on Tuesday.
“The outreach arm of Rajagiri College has been working on diverse social welfare activities amid lockdown. A team from the School of Social Work and School of Psychology have developed an online mental health platform to help common men assess their mental health and to engage their time positively during lockdown. The college is also working on to deliver one lakh masks for the people from low-income background,” said Jaya Vijayan, a faculty of MCA department and also a member of the committee leading the programme.
The international students too are excited with the activities. “I am happy that I could participate in this initiative. It is very nice to see students, teachers and other colleagues working together to achieve their goal amid such a social crisis,” said Zemarai Abdul Basir, a student from VIVES University, Belgium.