Kin of differently abled soldiers pitch in to make green masks

Sanjay Bumbroo

Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 12

At a time when social organisations and philanthropists are providing food and other essentials to the poor, the families of the differently abled soldiers are doing their bit by making green masks to help shield sanitation workers, cops and many others from Covid-19.

Till date, they had distributed over 3,000 protective masks among the locals and cops for free. About 10 women were involved in this endeavour.

Talking to The Tribune, Col (retd) Gurkirat Singh Nagra, director, Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre (PRC), said we are making 400 green masks daily. Now, we have decided to give 1,000 masks to the defence forces at the Western Command.

Colonel Singh said the PRC inmates have also been manufacturing uniform pullovers for students of Army Public School, Dagshai, and Sainik School, Kunjpura. The profit earned from the sale of these items will be distributed among the inmates, he added.

He said at present there are 170 persons, including the 30 differently abled soldiers, their families and the PRC staff. He said since the lockdown was announced in the state no one was being allowed to move out of the centre and added that everyone had been observing social distancing. He said they had been getting the raw material and gas cylinders at the centre for preparing food for the people in the centre.