Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has mobilized its resources to provide much-needed relief and support to the affected communities of the recent cyclone Remal, responding to the call of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
BCL, the student wing of Bangladesh Awami League, is distributing relief items including rice, pulse, edible oil, onion, potato and oral saline among the cyclone-affected poor in the country, particularly in the coastal areas. The swift actions demonstrated BCL’s commitment to the well-being of the nation’s citizens in times of crisis.
As part of the relief distribution programme, the BCL distributed relief items among 1,000 cyclone-victim families at Kalapara and Rangabali Upazila in Patuakhali on Wednesday (May 29).
BCL general secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Enan conducted the relief distribution activities in the two coastal upazilas and he also distributed relief items among the victims at Mujibnagar Union in Kalapara on Wednesday.
While distributing the relief items, Sheikh Wali Asif Enan said that BCL has been carrying out relief distribution and rehabilitation activities in the country as per directives of AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
“We’ll continue the relief distribution and rehabilitation program till further directive from our leader Sheikh Hasina,” Enan added.
Earlier, the BCL also conducted an awareness campaign for evacuating the people to safe places and cyclone shelter centers in the coastal areas before the landfall of Remal as well as distributed dried and cooked foods, oral saline, and water purification tablets among the people.
Earlier, Chhatra League central committee in a statement has directed its leaders and activists to help the affected people of cyclonic storm Remal.
“Chhatra League will play an important role for the affected people of cyclonic storm Remal in cyclonic areas.” The statement says a day before the storm hit Bangladesh’s coast.
Meanwhile, in Sylhet, BCL’s Sylhet M A G Osmani Medical College unit has stood by the people stranded by flood in the affected areas of Sylhet. On Thursday (May 30), under the leadership of the organization’s outgoing and newly elected president Saiful Islam, the leaders and activists distributed food items in Rostampur Union of Gowainghat Upazila of the district.
“Amid the disastrous weather conditions, the Chhatra League leaders and activists carried the food on their backs and delivered it door to door,” Saiful Islam said.
Cyclone Remal, which ripped through Bangladesh on Sunday night (May 26), has claimed at least 14 lives and affected over 37.58 lakh people across 19 districts.
While the cyclone has weakened into a deep depression, hundreds of villages in the southern parts of the country remain submerged.
