News
A helping hand to those struggling to survive
View(s):Thousands of low low-income families around the country are undergoing severe difficulties owing to the ongoing curfew to stop the spread of COVID-19. Many of these families comprise daily wage earners and survival is becoming much harder with each passing day.
Fellow Lankans however, are stepping up to help them in their hour of need. Various organisations, both government and non-government, are working together to provide much needed supplies of essential items to the needy in many parts of the country.
Our photographers captured these images of two such initiatives in Colombo. The first is by staff of the Colombo Municipal Council who have teamed up with the Civil Defence Force to prepare packs of essential items worth about Rs 2500 each to be distributed among 50, 000 low-income families within the municipal council limits. The packs contain rice, wheat flour, green gram, sugar, chickpeas, soap and tea. They will be distributed to the families starting from next week.
Meanwhile, the Wekanda Jummah Masjid Mosque distributed 2000 ration packs each containing essential items amounting to about Rs 3500 among affected families this week. Volunteers, both male and female, young and old, got together to unload and distribute the packs among the needy.
Pic by M.A. Pushpa Kumara and Sameera Weerasekera