Venkat, John Wilbert & Gracy Tripathy
Port Blair, September 3: Once again Mr. M P Abdul Rasheed came forward to help needy people of these Islands. This time he along with his team provided help to some Auto Drivers, who are suffering heavily during lockdowns.
In this state of extreme peril, Mr.Rasheed and his team hasn’t stepped back from reaching out to the helpless and needy.
Mr. M P Abdul Rasheed a Social Worker, is also popularly known as ‘Ration Rasheed’ due to his kind gesture of distributing free ration to people since the first Lockdown.
Yesterday Mr. Rasheed along with few youths of Haddo packed and distributed more than 100 ration kits consisting of essential commodities to the auto- drivers (the daily earners/the main sufferers of the lockdown) of Haddo Ward No. 1&2 in the Haddo ground.
When Andaman Sheekha contacted Mr. Rasheed and his team he said that in this whole lockdown situation, there are many people who are badly hit but it was very difficult for the auto rickshaw drivers.
“According to me, they were allowed to earn only for fifteen days during the entire lockdown period, which had led them to face difficulties in their livelihood. Therefore, we have come up to distribute ration to them. When we were reaching out to the other hard struck people, we gave a thought for the auto drivers too. Hence, I along with the volunteers decided to help especially the ones who are the residents of Haddo, in whatever way open to us,” he said.
He further added the main reason behind this act is to encourage and motivate other able islanders to come forward and give a helping hand towards their respective area’s auto drivers and daily wage earners.
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