04 August,2020 06:26 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI
Mizga, owner and principal of a school, distributes khichdi to children in Malwani
An online crowd-funding platform has raised Rs 30 lakh from donors for Mumbai-based Faiyaz Sheikh and his wife Mizga who exhausted their personal savings to feed about 1,500 people during the lockdown period.
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Sheikh said he was overwhelmed by the response evoked by his good deed. He said the platform has asked him and his wife to submit a projection about their future plans.
"We are very happy that our work has been recognised. During the lockdown, we spent Rs 5 lakh. But after a report was published in newspapers about our work, we received a donation of Rs 4 lakh from an industrialist," he said.
The Sheikhs, bases in Malwani in the western suburb of Malad, run a school in a slum area where about 350 students are studying.
"We will provide them various facilities including healthcare and ration (from Rs 30 lakh)," he said. Sheikh said his school lacked a washroom forcing teachers and students to use public toilets. The school also needs a library, desktops and audiovisual aids, he said. "Even benches and blackboards in our five-room school are in a bad shape," he added.
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