Tumnoupokpi local bodies feed IQC inmates
Source: The Sangai Express

Kangpokpi, June 09 2020: Development of Women and Child in Rural Area, Tumnoupokpi, Nteiramphung Baptist Church, Women Society, BYF, Men Society under the aegis of Tumnoupokpi Village Authority catered around 30 inmates including security personnel at its Institutional Quarantine Centre.

The local bodies of Tumnoupokpi under the aegis of its village authority began catering to inmates at the Institutional Quarantine Centre (IQC) for the last few weeks voluntarily on the appeal of Social Welfare and Cooperation Minister Nemcha Kipgen.

Anganwadi workers, helpers and ASHA workers along with the DWCRA, Women Society, BFY and Men Society cooked food for the inmates every morning and evening on roaster basis.

The food items like rice, dal etc were provided by the District Administration and necessary requirements by the local MLA Nemcha Kipgen while Tumnoupokpi local bodies and Church contributed to kitchen management.

Apart from the goods provided by the District Administration and Minister, the local bodies bought the remaining requirements with the village COVID fund.

The village, as told by secretary Livingson, had raised the COVID Fund for the stranded people who are lodged in the ICQs.

However, since the village CQC was converted into Institutional Quarantine Centre, the villagers decided to utilize the fund for procuring necessary requirements for the inmates of the centre.

"We believed in doing good to those who do good to us and we will not let any inmates of Tumnoupokpi Institutional Quarantine Centre feel insecure, upset and discriminated", Livingson said.

He further said that in order to provide a healthy dinner, the village local bodies on roaster basis provided meat curry along with other menu.

Volunteers of the women society of Nteiramphung Baptist Church were seen engaged in the catering of pork meat as the main menu today.

One of the woman volunteer said that its the time of the year when everyone in the village are engaged in field work and paddy cultivation but right now, taking care of our children in the centres is more important.

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