The Student Movement Against Discrimination on Sunday continued their relief collection programme at Dhaka University for the fourth consecutive day to aid flood-affected people in southeastern districts of the country.
The relief collection programme began at 8:00am on Sunday and continued till filing this report at 9:00pm on the day.
On the fourth day of the programme, instead of the Dhaka University Teacher-Student Centre, relief materials were collected at the university鈥檚 physical education centre.
Donors, however, were allowed to provide cash assistance and emergency medicine at the booth set up at the TSC gate.
Md Lutfor Rahman, one of the coordinators of the movement, said on Sunday morning that today only cash and emergency medicine would be collected at the TSC, while relief materials would be collected at Dhaka University Physical Education Centre.
Like the past three days, people were seen donating both money and necessary goods including basic medicines, dry food, clothes, sanitary napkins, water bottles, life jackets and others.
As crowds of donors were coming on vehicles and on foot, traffic congestion was created in the university area.
A group of volunteers had been employed to control the traffic system.
Shafiq Afsar, a businessperson from Lalbagh in the capital, told new age that he couldn鈥檛 come in the past three days as he was busy.
鈥業 have come today with some dry food, medicine and clothes. In this situation, food and clothes are very essential for the flood-affected people,鈥� he said.
Maruf Patowary, a volunteer from the money collection booth of TSC, told 抖阴精品 that the number of donors was lesser than the previous day.
He said that they collected a total of TK 5,23,03,603 at the TSC booth and through banking channels under the banner of the Student Movement Against Discrimination until 5:00pm on Sunday.
Of the collected amount, Tk 30,12,970 had already been spent, he added.
It was seen that relief packages containing essential dry food and medicine were prepared using items collected from the TSC.
Each truck was seen loaded with 800-1,000 of these packages and 20-30 boxes of water bottles.
Relief operations were conducted in the flood-affected areas from Tuesday to Sunday afternoon, and more than 50,000 packages were sent to the affected areas through 50 trucks.
Of these, 3,000 packages were distributed by helicopter in remote flood-affected areas under the supervision of the Bangladesh Air Force, and an assistance of Tk 396,500 in cash was provided.