Date: 20th October 2018
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Venue: Dastooripada, Dist: Palghar
Participants : NSS Volunteers of SJCHS
Programme In-charge: Prof. Maqsood Memon (NSS Programme Officer, SJCHS), Mr. Sachin Urade (NSS Programme Officer, SJCEM)
St. John College of Humanities and Sciences, Palghar – NSS Unit in association with Palghar cloth bank took an initiative and organized NSS Clothes Collection Drive at St.John Technical Campus, Palghar. The Drive duration was from 11th October to 17th October 2018.The purpose of this activity is to provide clothes to the needy and poor Tribal Children, Families nearby adopted village Dastooripda by St.John College of Humanities and Sciences (SJCHS).
The NSS Volunteers started this activity with the daily follow up in all institutes of St.John Technical Campus.Volunteers kept boxes near the entrances of all the institutes with catchy note/ slogan “ Donate Clothes – for the poor and needy ”. The boxes were donated by Palghar Cloth Bank.There was overwhelming response from Teaching, Non – Teaching staff and students in the St.John Technical Campus. Volunteers took sincere efforts in collecting all the clothes and segregated them as per age groups. On 20thOctober, 2018 NSS Volunteers of SJCHS – NSS unit conducted the said drive at adopted village Dastooripada.The Drive was started with the introductory speech given by Mr. Sachin Urade. Thus totally 10 volunteers actively participated in this Drive. The students were very enthusiastic about the drive as they were happy after experiencing the cheerful and happy faces of the children in tribal community.The villagers accepted all the clothes without any grudging which were distributed by NSS Volunteers.
On the whole, the drive was very fruitful for the villagers. As a result, they appeared very much positive and supportive about the programme when they witnessed sympathy and painstaking efforts for tribal children. They also thanked and appreciated all the NSS Volunteers and Programme officer for taking the initiative in these regards and the Concern of SJCHS-NSS unit for the villagers.
