Helping Bengal’s distraught families

Monday 13th July 2020 19:26 EDT
 

Adda is a Slough, UK based charity organisation working for cultural integration between India and UK. During the Covid-19 crisis, Adda Slough embarked into a new role of serving the society addressing the call of the hour.

Adda Slough in collaboration with other organisations like Slough Mitra Mandal, Slough food bank, Slough Hindu Temple, Sewa Day reached out to provide food supplies, essential commodities and medicines to the doorsteps of elderly, the vulnerable, health workers and stranded Indian students abroad. With the help of Slough council and Thames Valley Police, Adda Slough in itself has reached out to a total of 50,000 in collaboration with others.

One of the key international donors from Netherlands, Milton Biswas talked about Adda’s unwavering commitment on charity activities at the crisis times and cited the reason on his continuous support on Adda’s funding activities.

Super cyclone Amphan which originated from Bay of Bengal has severely destroyed South of Bengal including Bangladesh and Indian state of West Bengal. Among them in Ganges delta mangrove forest region of Sundarban is worst hit where not only there has been numerous casualties but also people have lost most of the infrastructure and livelihood.

Currently several organisations have come forward to raise fund for cyclone hit Bengal. Adda has been not only raising fund but also disbursing it faster to make sure the aid reaches to distress quickly and effectively. Adda teamed up with Kolkata based NGO Kolkata Mary Ward Social Centre (KMWSC) for the relief activity.


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