Under the campaign: “Need of the hour”
Able Charities has worked on a war footing from the day the Honourable Prime Minister declared a national lock down and appealed to people to stay indoors. The daily wage workers, who lived in jhuggies in Palwal, were rendered wage less and were in a dilemma of feeding their families. It is then that ABLE Charities swung into action. They started distributing 5 kgs of rice, dal , salt and oil to each of the family of the jhuggie dwellers who lived in make shift tents which were their homes in the Palwal district. “Having worked with them for the past 18 years, we realised that this was a serious situation for hundreds of families who lived in the jhuggies of Palwal,” says Wg Com Khullar, the founder of ABLE Charities, an internationally registered non-profit organization that operates in the rural areas of Palwal and slums of Faridabad to facilitate education and healthcare for the grossly underprivileged strata of society.
“We distributed these items to almost 400 families from to each day,” says Harsh, one of the social workers who has been working with the NGO for many years. “Most of these labourers depend on their day-to-day work to earn their 2 square meals for their families,” says Deepak, another of the social workers, who braved the threat of the corona virus and went around the jhuggies to distribute these packets. “We realized that if we as a society did not help at this crucial time, these families would be at the brink of starvation, due to the lockout which had rendered them job less.”
“But it has been possible due to the generosity of donors who have come forward to donate. We received our first donation of Rs 10,000 from Mr N.k. Arora ji and swung into action,” says Wg Com. Khullar. “We are hopeful that there will be many who will come forward and realize the need of the our. It is to our donors that we remain ever grateful.”
‘My team has braved all odds to come forward and help out in full force,” says Wg Com, Khullar
