Argentina provides water tablets for flood victims

Argentinean ambassador presents purification tablets to Rotary Club.

ISLAMABAD:

Argentinean Ambassador Rodolfo J Martin-Saravia on Monday presented eight packets of water purification tablets to the Rotary Club for the flood affected areas in Sindh.

Martin said that it was a great pleasure to be a part of the club and as a representative of Argentina he was delighted to pursue good relations between the two countries. Giving details of the water purification tablets, he said each has a life span of four and a half years. Each package has ten thousand tablets, which can purify up to 2 million litres of water. The tablets will be distributed through the 200 rotary clubs in Pakistan to the flood affected areas in Sindh and its adjacent locations, the ambassador informed the audience.

While speaking about the water crisis in the rural areas of Pakistan, Martin said, “Water is an essential part of our daily lives which we take for granted, we only realise its value during a natural calamity as scarcity of water is the major cause of diseases.”

Rotary Club President Sultan Hayat said that club aims to continue its humanitarian work for Pakistan especially during trying times like the present, “We hope to continue aiding the flood affected areas in any way we can.”

After the presentation of the tablets to the president of the club, former ambassador Ali Sarwar Naqvi discussed “Problems of our Nationhood” in a speech. Explaining the dynamics of Pakistan’s history he said, “Pakistan was born with a usual apparatus of a state but due to the hasty division the concept of nationhood could not develop as it should have.”

Published in The Express Tribune, October 18^th, 2011.