Posted on April 29, 2020 by Pahal Design in New Updates
NIFT students, along with people from industry are busy these days in stitching different type of masks to fight against covid-2019.
They have delivered 30,000 masks so far to the needy people & now they are targeting 1 lac masks to be made in upcoming days.
“Five minutes. That’s all it takes,” Priyankur Sengupta, 23, says while cutting and stitching a mask at home, using an old cotton T-shirt. While many youngsters are busy deciding which Netflix show to binge-watch next, Sengupta, a final year student at the Delhi branch of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), and his peers across India, are busy giving shape to a mass movement with the help of social media.
Their plan is to create one million cotton masks by the end of this month. In the past two weeks, since the Helping Hands initiative started, they have made over 17,000 masks, which have been distributed to stranded migrant labourers, the transgender community, slum dwellers, and police personnel in Bengaluru, Kangra, Jodhpur, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Ujjain.