WFO to provide food to the poor

Published October 20, 2002

DADU, Oct 19: The World Food Organization will provide wheat, ghee and pluses to poor people of different areas in Sindh.

This was said by the director, World Food Organisation, David Filcher, while speaking at a meeting of taluka Nazims, government officers and NGOs’ delegations at the DCO office here on Saturday.

Flicher said various parts of the interior of Sindh were badly affected by poverty and added there was drought-like condition in some parts of the Dadu district.

He said 50kgs wheat, 5kgs ghee and 5kgs pluses would be provided per family in the affected areas every month.

He urged the Nazims, Naib Nazims, councillors and NGOs to help officials of the UN in distribution of food items among the people.

The DCO, Abdul Razzaq Abbasi, informed the meeting the district administration had constituted ten committees for the distribution of the food among the people.

STOLEN: Three unidentified thieves broke locks of the front doors of the HBL, Khanpur branch, Friday night and took away generator and other things.

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