Design students, along with fashion brands, are working towards creating one million masks by end of April. They have given away 30,000 free masks till date to the needy “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