A north Kolkata Club has distributed clothes to over 500 orphan children from different orphanage in the city on the eve of the Bengalees greatest festival Durga puja. One of the renowned organizations in West Bengal, their motto is to “always aims to care & protect the less-fortunate individuals and mass that have been deprived of basic necessities either by our system or fate”.
Repeating the noble gesture for eight consecutive years, Uttar Kolkata Udayer Pathe distributed new clothes to 350 children of ‘The Refuge’ where former city Police Commissioner Goutam Mohan Chakraborty and theatre and television personality Debshankar Halder were present. Ex Indian crickter Utpal Chatterjee and Asia’s oldest football club Mohan Bagan’s coach Sankarlal Chakraborty came to encourage the kids during the cloth distribution ceremony.
Garments were distributed to another 170 children of “The Calcutta Orphanage”. Like previous years, this year too, their initiative to bring priceless smiles on their faces on most auspicious occasion in West Bengal, Durga Puja.
“We have been doing this for eight years. We feel that these children have the right to enjoy the Durga Pujas like everybody else. So we have taken this initiative,” executive member of the club Diptiman Das said this to the Indian Media. The club also has plans to distribute new clothes to the needy children in the Sundarbans, he also added.
Sundarbans is a vast forest in the coastal region of the Bay of Bengal. Located in the delta region of Padma, Meghna and Brahmaputra river basins, this unique forest extends across Khulna, Satkhira, Bagerhat districts of Bangladesh and South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal, India.
This is really a kind and thoughtful idea to help these underprivileged kids.
Pratyusha Mukherjee, Journalist, Kolkata
