BAJURA: Food, clothes and stationery items have been provided to eight under-served families in Bajura district today. The relief items -- collected by Prakash Singh, President of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), Bajura, also The Himalayan Times correspondent, and Anup Sthapit, an artist and social activist -- were handed over to under-served families through a campaign at Betalmandau Bazaar in Budhiganga Municipality. Financial assistance and donations from within and outside the country started accumulating since the journalist and social campaigner Singh launched a drive through social networking, which aimed to help economically deprived families, orphans and children in the district by reporting the news featuring their actual conditions. It has been reported that Basudha Gurung of Kathmandu has also donated food grains worth Rs 6,000 through the campaign. Of the eight families who received relief — food, clothes and stationery items — five are reeling under poverty level while three others are landslide and flood victims. The food items including rice and grams were handed over to Nande Pari of Kudi, who lost his wife Kala Pari in a landslide incident. Others who received the relief items are the families displaced by landslide and flood — Bir Bahadur Shahi, Surendra Saud, Kunti Nepali, Motikala Nepali, and Tuli Saud — including two families of Chand Badi and Sapana Badi dwelling in roadside cottages in a sorry state, Budhiganga Municipality Mayor Deepak Bikram Shah said and added that the distribution would relieve the deprived families. Meanwhile, Sthapit expressed his commitment to supporting the families, children and orphans in the remote areas of the district.