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Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has stood beside the victims of the recent cyclone Remal, responding to the call of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
BCL, the AL’s student wing, is distributing relief items including rice, pulse, edible oil, onion, potato and oral saline among the cyclone-affected poor in the country particularly in the coastal areas.
As part of the relief distribution programme, the BCL distributed relief items among 1,000 cyclone-victim families at Kalapara and Rangabali Upazila in Patuakhali on Wednesday last, BCL general secretary Sheikh Wali Asif Enan told the media on Friday (31 May).
Sheikh Wali conducted the relief distribution activities in the two coastal upazilas and he also distributed relief items among the victims at Mujibnagar Union in Kalapara on Wednesday last.
He said BCL has been carrying out relief distribution and rehabilitation activities in the country as per directives of AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “We’ll continue the relief distribution and rehabilitation programme till further directive from our leader Sheikh Hasina,” said the BCL general secretary.
Earlier, the BCL also conducted an awareness campaign for evacuating the people to safe places and cyclone shelter centres in the coastal areas before the landfall of Remal as well as distributed dried and cooked foods, oral saline, and water purification tablets among the people.
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