From the margins to frontliners: Trans volunteers step up

From the margins to frontliners: Trans volunteers step up

Volunteers of Brihonnola, a platform for the transgender community, pulling a patient in wheelchair with oxygen cylinder towards hospital. Photo: Md Abu Sufian Jewel /UNB. The strict lockdown imposed countrywide from April 14 to put a leash on the soaring transmission of Covid-19 in Bangladesh will stay in force till at least April 28.

As boundless agonies of marginal income earners become more evident every day, some of them have taken the initiative to turn the table on the face of crisis by volunteering as frontline workers providing critical and emergency services during the pandemic.

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