Qazi Umair, an IT professional on the 15th day of March gathered some volunteers in his locality at Qazi Mohallah in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district amid the heightening cases of covid19 worldwide. Umair, who is the son of slain Mirwaiz of South Kashmir, Dr. Qazi Nisar through the help of locals and some prominent businessmen from the township started providing assistance to those in desperate need in help amid lock-down.
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The trust has announced cars service for emergency services for people in South Kashmir. A group of more than 200 volunteers across South Kashmir under the banner of Khyri Aam trust assisted more than 2000 poor families providing them with ration, oil, spices, flour, Milk, salt, eateries sugar, tea and other essentials. The trust also made Face shields recommended and checked by doctors, the face shields are designed for doctors and other employees of the Health Department.
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The volunteers maintaining social distancing also provided food to patients and their attendees at District Hospital of Anantnag on several occasions. Wearing masks, the volunteers also sanitized various localities and the doors of various household.
They also opened a call centre for girls, managed and supported by girl volunteers. “Because the issues of girls are well understood by girls, so we wanted to address the problems of girls on our own, we want girls to call us, so far we have helped more than 200 girls from the township who called us, we have been doing this since a month,” Rumi jan, a girl volunteer with Khyri Aam trust said.
She said that this is for the very first time that girls have been calling us and trying to get their issues resolved. She expressed hope that more girls from South Kashmir will call them. Khyri Aam trust established in 1988 by the slain Mirwaiz, Dr. Qazi Nisar Ahmed has been a hope for the people of South Kashmir and has been providing assistance to the people in dire hours of need including the 2008 and 2010 protests.
Also in 2016, the trust provided relief material to people in need during the strict curfew imposed in the valley in the aftermath of the killing of Burhan Wani on July 08 that year.
The trust that year also on the directions of its chairman, Qazi Ahmed Yasir introduced Curfew schools and opened more than hundred schools throughout South Kashmir.ax