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Imphal: A group of volunteers consisting of teachers, doctors, paramedics, and social workers from Vishwagram called on the governor of Manipur, Anusuiya Uikey at Raj Bhavan here today and highlighted the activities taken up by their organization for the children taking shelter in various relief camps in Manipur and for rendering medical checkups of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), a statement from Raj Bhavan said.
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They informed that they had already visited 16 relief camps and engaged with children in creative activities like drawing, card making, toy making, origami, games, music etc to bring them out of trauma. They informed that their teams checked up on IDPs with any health issues and provided medicines too and if they came across a patient with serious health issues, they contacted a local medical officer for further examination. The team visited four districts- Imphal East, Imphal West, Bishnupur and Thoubal. They have initiated a campaign for a collection of books for children in relief camps in Gujarat.
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The team further expressed that during their discussion with IDPs, they learnt that many of them would like to take up vocational training to earn their livelihood. As such, the team explored training facilities in various fields in Gujarat and may enroll around 40-50 inmates, for free of cost training for three-four months in Gujarat.
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The governor, while expressing her appreciation and gratitude to the team for their humanitarian services, stated that healing and mental peace for the children is the need of the hour and encouraged them to take up more such activities that will bring out the children from the trauma experienced from the strife. She reiterated her initiative of extending various relief materials for the displaced people in relief camps. She also encouraged the team to continue their humanitarian services in strife-hit Manipur.
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