Underprivileged school students serve Covid patients, jobless migrants in Rohtak

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, May 26

Groups of underprivileged children from different charitable schools in Rohtak are engaged in serving Covid-19 patients by arranging and distributing ration amongst the needy and creating awareness about the pandemic.

These students come from humble backgrounds and face financial and other constraints themselves. Yet, they have dedicated themselves to the service of those who have been hit hard by Covid-19 and/or rendered jobless due to the lockdown.

Girl volunteers of Make The Future of Country (MTFC), a voluntary body that runs a school for the underprivileged children, supply packets of cooked meals at the doorsteps of Covid-hit families. These girls also take care of the Covid patients admitted to a Covid Care Centre set up by Jan Sewa Sansthan, a local NGO.

Student-volunteers of Gandhi School, another informal school meant for the children of migrant workers and other labourers, arrange ration material from well-to-do residents and distribute it among the lockdown-hit migrants and other needy.

Volunteers of Abhinav Toly, a training centre run for children from the lower strata of society, distribute medicines, ration, sanitary-pads and face-masks etc among the slum-dwellers and others in need.

“These children are a source of inspiration for all. The social activists running these schools – Naresh Dhall of MTFC, Naresh Kumar of Gandhi School and Jagdeep Jugnu of Abhinav Toly – have been inspiring and grooming their students as sensitive human-beings and responsible citizens,” observes Dr Parveen Malhotra of Rohtak PGIMS, who has been supporting such initiatives in the city.