The group of Sikh volunteers from Khalsa Aid who reached the Bangladesh-Myanmar border earlier this week have began distributing 'langar' to the thousands of refugees living the camps.
Khalsa Aid
On the first day on Thursday, the volunteers said they started the Guru ka langar and prepared food for some 35,000 Rohingyas living in the camp. According to The Indian Express, the team was till now distributing only packaged food items as they did not have the necessary permissions from the Bangladesh government.?
Khalsa Aid
On the first day of the langar, Sikh volunteers served cooked rice and vegetables.
?¡°We cooked and served the first langar meals here today. We had purchased raw materials like rice, vegetables and big utensils on Wednesday after getting required permissions from the government of Bangladesh. The initial target is at least 35,000 meals per day. However seeing the increasing number of refugees here, we know it won¡¯t be enough to feed all but we had to start somewhere,¡± Amarpreet Singh, managing director, India for Khalsa Aid told The Indian Express.
PIB
Meanwhile the Indian government under Operation Insaniyat, has sent 53 tonnes of relief materials on Thursday. The material includes items required urgently by the affected people like rice, pulses, sugar, salt, cooking oil, tea, ready to eat noodles, biscuits, and mosquito nets.