In a heartfelt initiative to support the most vulnerable, Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation distributed over 30 water storage tanks—each with a capacity of 500 to 1000 litres—to newly arrived Pakistani Hindu refugee families in Gangana village, Jodhpur. The distribution would benefit more than 250 refugees who are struggling to access and store basic necessities like drinking water.
Swati Goel Sharma, journalist and founder of Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation, led the distribution drive. “It was heartbreaking to see that families who have just arrived from Pakistan don’t even have containers to store water. They walk several kilometres multiple times a day for their needs,” she said. “These families are so impoverished that affording three meals a day is a challenge, let alone arranging bedding or water storage. After providing them rations and bedding, today we gave them water tanks so that they can at least store the little water they manage to get.”
One of the beneficiaries, Chhanu Ram, who arrived from Sindh last month, said his family is still looking for a place to set up a shanty. “We depend entirely on water tankers, but we had no way to store water. This help has come as a huge relief,” he said.
Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation has been consistently working to rehabilitate and empower Pakistani Hindu refugees in Jodhpur. The Foundation runs a full-time education centre for refugee children and a martial arts centre offering strength and self-defence training. Earlier this year, four children trained at the centre won gold and silver medals at a national Karate championship in Jaipur. The Foundation has also taken refugee children to national-level Robotics competitions, including IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay, giving them a platform to compete with the best young minds in the country.
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