Dimapur, July 5 (EMN): The Covid-19 task force has named the quarantine centre at Chizami as ‘Covid-19 Creativity Hub Chizami’.
According to a DIPR report, the convenor of the task force, Wetshete Thopi, said that during one of their trips to the centre an idea emerged seeing the negativity in the society including stigmatisation, discrimination and the unspoken fear of the returnees by the local folks.
“Months of lockdown and further quarantine at various facilities within the state must have taken a huge toll on their mental health and so to create something positive they decided to name the facility as Covid-19 Creativity Hub instead of Covid-19 quarantine centre,” he said.
As the name suggests, it is a place for creativity, positivity and productivity and not a place to be abhorred and looked with disdain. They wanted the returnees to stay positive and make the best use of their stay at the facility, using their creative talents and abilities to create and make positive stuffs so as to spread positivity in the midst of a global gloom that has surrounded us, an update stated.
North East Network (NEN) provided the necessary tools and kits to the returnees such as diary, notebook, drawing book, poster, pencil, colors and brush so that they can make use of their time writing stories, poems, do the drawings and paintings, and crafts as they spent time at the centre. Their works will be collected and will be published by NEN at a later time, it read.
Some of the returnees have successfully completed their stay and has created positive impacts in their own ways during their stay at the facility.
The convenor appealed to all to continue to spread positivity, not negativity and rumours. During setting up the creative hub, Chizami followed the principles of ‘Care for the people’ and ‘care for the Earth’.
The huts were constructed with bamboo and segregation of biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste is being done. Each hut is connected with a rain water harvesting facility. No plastics items are used and tekruyenyi (organic green leaves) and environmental friendly is being used for food packaging, it informed.
