Chitlapakkam Rising, a group of volunteer-residents in Chitlapakkam who underatke various initiaives for the betterment of the locality, have begun a clothes collection drive in Chitlapakkam to help the stranded people affected by the lockdown.
Sunil Jayaraman, founder-member, Chitlapakkam Rising, says, “The stranded people are housed at State government-run shelter camps, which include bus terminuses termed into shelters, and provided with food. But unfortunately, these residents don’t have enough change of clothes for the next couple of weeks. They would aslo need towels and bed sheets.”
On Tuesday, through the clothes collection drive, we collected more than 50 clothes in an hour. We would need anywhere between 150 and 200 dresses, including shirts, pants, and dhotis. We request the members of the public to donate used clothes, washed and neatly ironed. They can drop the clothes at one of our volunteers’ home — that is, the volunteer residing near their home — or call the volunteers.
For details, call Sunil Jayaraman at 95001 22151, or V. Udaya Kumar at 97914 68280.