Indian Red Cross Society visits displaced people in Kangpokpi with relief materials

They provided relief items such as rice, blanket, blanket rugs, thermocol dunlop, soaps, sanitary pads, mosquito net, tarpaulin, t-shirts, masks, hygiene kits, etc.

The Indian Red Cross Society’s Senapati District Branch along with the Nagaland State Branch visited displaced people settled at various relief camps in Kangpokpi, Manipur today.

Around 20 members of the Indian Red Cross Society Senapati District Branch and Red Cross Society Nagaland State Branch also met the Kangpokpi Town Relief Committee and Kangpokpi District Relief Committee at their offices at Brig. M. Thomas Ground, Kangpokpi town.

The Indian Red Cross Society of Senapati District Branch and Nagaland State Branch provided in bulk relief items such as rice, blanket, blanket rugs, thermocol dunlop, soaps, sanitary pads, mosquito net, tarpaulin, t-shirts, masks, hygiene kits, etc.

They also visited relief camps set up at Kuki Baptist Convention Centre Church Kangpokpi, Kangpokpi Christian Church, and Kangpokpi Independent Baptist Church and interacted with the displaced people while highlighting the roles and responsibilities of the Indian Red Cross Society in times of crisis.

Speaking to the North East Live, Benjamin Tao, Chairman of the Indian Red Cross Society Senapati District Branch said that they have come to Kangpokpi to distribute relief materials along with the Nagaland Red Cross Society to those displaced persons settled at various relief camps in Kangpokpi town.

He also recalled that the Indian Red Cross Society Senapati Branch like other branches around the globe, has been doing humanitarian service for the past 20 years, and in the present Manipur crisis we have even transported dead bodies, and patients injured in the clash to Nagaland in the name of Red Cross. “We are impartial and we have no boundary. We move around and see that there are no affected people around and help them through the Red Cross not in other forms but on humanitarian grounds we serve one another,” asserted Benjamin Tao.

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