As many as 1,300 women volunteers of the Ashakiranam Dress Bank, an initiative launched by the Wayanad Social Service Society (WSSS), a non-governmental organisation in the district, have set a model in providing solace to hundreds of persons, especially tribespeople, by disbursing clothes free of cost to the needy for the past two years.
“This endeavour provides dresses primarily to poor cancer patients and needy community people. These dresses are collected from different houses. The clothes are serviceable but not useable for them and are kept in a room on the WSSS campus at Mananthavady. All the volunteers make the act a routine in a monthly schedule,” says Father Paul Koottala, executive director, WSSS.
