Helping hand: Red Crescent gives ration to victims

PRCS provids half a month’s ration and three month’s medical care to 5,000 families hit by the drought.

KARACHI: The Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) provided half a month’s ration and three month’s medical care to 5,000 families hit by the drought. PRCS Chairman Dr Saeed Elahi and Secretary General Dr Mahboob Sardar distributed the rations among the affectees during their visit to Tharparkar. The food package for each family included flour, rice, spilt chickpea pulse, pink lentil, ghee, sugar, tea, salt and mineral water. The food package also includes 82,000 nutrition packs for the affectees to help alleviate malnutrition among the children and women. Dr Elahi said that PRCS will help the people suffering because of the drought and will continue supporting the people of Thar in the future too. He said that the PRCS would stay in the area till the rehabilitation of the victims is complete, and would also set up clean water supplies and health units in Thar.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16^th, 2014.