 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 25: As a part of its annual activity and to provide relief to poor people in the prevailing chilling weather, volunteers of Team Jammu today opened 5-day long winter clothes collection center under the name 'Raahat' at Bawa Palace, Shakti Nagar, here today.
The centre will remain opened from 11 am to 5 pm till December 29, following which the collected woolen items including women, men and children wear would be distributed in hilly belts of Kathua district in the first week of New Year.
Hundreds of city residents including men, women and youth today thronged at collection centre at donated woolen clothes for further distribution among the poor populace. Besides, volunteers of Team Jammu hailing from RS Pura, Akhnoor, Mishriwala, Samba and Kandi belts of Raipur and Mathwar block also collected woolen from their respective areas and transported to main collection centre at Bawa Palace, where volunteers re-packed the same for further distribution.
While interacting with city residents and volunteers, Chairman Team Jammu, Zorawar Singh Jamwal said that, "Formal meetings have been convened by district administration and district police Kathua who have started identifying the belts on priority basis, where there is large number of poor population. He informed that during the meeting, DC Kathua, OP Bhagat and SSP Kathua, Shridhar Patil assured all kind of cooperation in the said humanitarian cause, while organizing proper distribution function where the poor people would be provided gift or warmth in the coming new year. |
