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Revisiting 2020: Eco Alarmist’s year of giving
Jan. 27: 2020 triggered a new kind of normalcy all over the globe. With the imposition of lockdown and the shutdown of economic activities, there was uncertainty all over. Ruled by Covid-19, 2020 was the year of distress and crisis. However, champions are the ones who can turn unfavourable situations in their favour. Some young change makers of Silchar, Assam proved the same. They were able to make 2020 a ‘year of giving.’ The youthful energies provided the needy with the necessary amenities while keeping in mind the motive to erase the carbon footprints on planet Earth and ensure ecological sustainability.
The year 2020 has already ended, and team Eco Alarmist, a youth-led group has released a look back into their campaigns and the milestones they achieved together with the people’s utmost support and goodwill. More than 1500 people were benefited from their support programmes in 2020. There were cloth distribution programmes in which more than 100 kgs of clothes were provided to the needy, which they believe is a way of keeping old clothes out of the landfill and helping the environment along with benefiting needy people.
As a part of their COVID-19 relief programme, they bout several doctors on their social media platforms to create awareness about the pandemic, 200+ sanitation kits were distributed, 150+ daily wage-earning families received meal kits and 3 Sanitizer dispensers were installed in socially active places in and around Silchar. Moreover, one thousand six hundred sanitary pads along with books and stationary and pre-loved clothes have been distributed to beneficiaries in Guwahati by the Ghy team of Eco Alarmist. Besides, 2020 also saw the familiar nemesis of Assam, that is, flood, and for this, meal kits were shipped to 100 families through ‘Rapid Response’, India’s first disaster relief NGO, by the young group.
To sum up, the initiatives that had been taken up by the Eco Alarmist team in the year 2020 were- ‘Lockdown Protocol’, ‘Feed the Needy,’ ‘Community Sanitation,’ ‘Assam is drowning,’ ‘Share the Warmth,’ ‘Giving them Wings.’ Eco Alarmist is a not-for-profit organization which is working for making planet Earth a beautiful place to live in by indulging in various social activities while promoting sustainable development in ecological aspect. Subhadeep Purkayastha, the founder of the organization, believes that the world is problems and change is only possible when more young change makers join in.