Remembering the unfortunate: NGO to distribute sacrificial meat among flood affectees

A team of volunteers from several countries has arrived in Pakistan for this purpose

BAHAWALPUR: HASENE IGMG Hilfs-und Sozialverein, a Germany-based charity established by Turkish migrant workers, will distribute sacrificial meat to almost 400,000 underprivileged people on the occasion of Eidul Azha.

A team of eight representatives of HASENE, comprising volunteers from Germany, Holland, Austria and Australia, will take part in the distribution.

HASENE team leader Mustafa Hamurcu said they had come to Pakistan to express their love and solidarity for their Pakistani brethren. He said this year, the HASENE had arranged 9,674 shares in sacrifices including 2,600 sacrifices in Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalpur districts so that the poor and flood-affected people could celebrate the auspicious occasion. He said HASENE would distribute meat of more than 150,000 shares of sacrificial meat in more than 100 countries.  Hamurcu said that close to 80 per cent of this year’s sacrificial meat would be distributed among people affected by floods and the security situation in the Punjab, Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa and in Balochistan provinces as well as in Azad Kashmir. HASENE has been distributing sacrificial meat in Pakistan since 2010, he said. The organisation has distributed more than 75,000 shares of sacrificial animals between 2010 and 2014 for close to three and a half million people, he said.

HASENE has also been working on several humanitarian aid and development projects in Pakistan including disaster relief, feeding the poor, provision of clean drinking water, health projects, and building schools. HASENE has set up a state-of-the-art school for flood victims in Charsadda, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. HASENE is also working on a sponsorship project to help more than 1,500 orphan children, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 25^th, 2015.