Girl breaks piggy bank, pays airfare of three migrants
Ranchi:02.06.2020
A small philanthropic gesture by a 12-year-old girl from Noida is winning hearts. She paid for the airfrare of three migrant workers from Jharkhand from her piggy bank savings.
Her act of kindness amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has left thousands of migrant workers stranded in major cities across the country, drew appreciation from Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Monday.
The girl, a Class VIII student of a private school, paid Rs 48,000 to buy air tickets for the three workers from Jharkhand, one of them a cancer patient, from her savings. Appreciating her action, Soren said he was grateful to the 12-year-old for her sensitivity to the needs of others and wished her a bright future, a statement from the chief minister’s office read.
The girl, identified as Niharika Dwivedi, said, “Samaaj ne hame bahut kuchh diya hei aur iss sankat mein usse wapas karna hamari zimmedari hai (The society has given us much and it is our responsibility to return it during this crisis)”.
Dwivedi’s help assumes significance amid the distress faced by migrant workers across the country with many of them walking hundreds of kilometres every day to reach their homes, and some even dying due to accidents and fatigue during the arduous journey.
Sources said the girl, with the help of her parents, got in touch with some common friends to find out if any migrant worker was interested in going back home in view of the hardship faced during the anti-coronavirus lockdown and got to know about the three Jharkhand natives, which including a cancer patient. PTI
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