Baglung municipality's food bank serving poor, daily wage earners

Kathmandu - Baglung municipality has set up a food bank to help the daily wage earners and poor people who lost their works owing to lockdown enforced nationwide to contain the spread of coronavirus. The food bank was established two weeks back with the support of Baglung Jaycees for the assistance of the daily workers, helpless and poor people.

For the first round, the Jaycees provided the food items of Rs 60,000, according to its chair Surendra Shakya. He added that 500 kg of rice, 75 kg of pulse, 50 of salt, 50 litres of oil, and 200 kgs of flour was provided for the support in the first phase. The food bank was launched after the workers from the district and out of it complained of not getting relief materials in the wake of lockdown, said Baglung municipality mayor, Janakraj Poudel.

The Jaycees and the municipality took this initiative to ensure that none would suffer from hunger. On the very day the food bank was set up, rights activist Ram Sharma had contributed 20 sacks of rice worth Rs 30,000. Similarly Editor at Dhorpatan daily, Hari Narayan Gautam, provided 20 sacks of rice and some pulse and salt. The workers and their family members have been benefitted with the food bank, said mayor Poudel, adding that after the first round of assistance, other indigent would be identified and distributed the relief materials.