The ‘Wall of Kindness’ and ‘Wall of Humanity’ has reached Handwara town of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district where people were seen putting up clothes, daily food items and vegetables for anonymously helping the needy.
A group of volunteers painted two walls, one at bus stand and another in Sabzi Mandi of Handwara town for willing people to drop off useful materials for the needy.
“The wall of kindness will be used for clothes and shoes, wall of humanity will be used for vegetables, food items for needy people,” said a volunteer Masood-ul-Haq, adding shopkeepers of the vegetable market hung packets of vegetables on the designated spot.
Scores of people were seen hanging clothes on the wall, but due to the wet weather the donated clothes were shifted to a shop from where anyone who needed them could take it.
The volunteers said they had requested the wall owner to allow them make a small roof over it to protect donated materials from getting wet, but he refused.
“I have seen the face of poverty, some needy people are ashamed of asking for anything, this is for them, where they don’t have to ask anyone for anything,” Masood said, adding not many donors came forward so far.
“It needs a lot of hard work to make this wall a successful initiative,” a volunteer said.
After the wall of kindness in Srinagar attracted people from a cross section of society, volunteers are expanding the initiative as the bone chilling ‘Chilae-Kalan’, the coldest part of winter in Kashmir begings in two weeks.
“The place welcomes both givers and takers. People can come and donate anything for the ones who are in need of warm clothes amid this harsh winter,” said Kabir Geelani, a volunteer.