Winter Clothes Campaign for the victim of Cold Wave in the Terai Region of Nepal

By: Jeena Dangol

This winter proved to be harmful in some part of the Terai Region of Nepal like Sundhuli, Chitwan, Lumbini, Rautahat, Sarlahi and Saptari etc. Cold wave already caused the death of more than 50 people due to lack of proper clothing and housing in remote part of the Terai region. This news really touched the heart of the people in the city. So MySmallHelp Nepal in co-operation with Gwarko Development Committee, organized 6 days campaign from 27^th December 2011 to 1^st January 2012. 

The clothes were collected through door to door collection as well as a small booth in the Gwarko chowk where people can drop their clothes to support. This campaign had successfully collected nearly two Lorries of winter clothes from local citizens.

MSH Team as well as one of the mother groups of Gwarko really worked hard to filter out the clothes as per the gender and size so that they can be distributed easily to the respective group in the affected area. MSH Team really wants to thank Mr. Prabin Man Shrestha one of the members of MySmallHelp, Mother Group as well as members of Gwarko Development Committee to run the campaign successfully. The collected clothes were distributed last week by the members of the Gwarko Development Committee. MySmallHelp hopes that this small effort may help the people living in Terai to some extent to prevent themselves from this natural disaster. It is estimated that the collected clothes will benefit more than 500 families in the affected area.