PESHAWAR: The volunteers of Al-Khidmat Foundation Sunday distributed food packages among 119 families at the quarantined streets of Chamkani area here, which have been sealed after the death of a Coronavirus patient.
The relief team was led by provincial president of the foundation, Khalid Waqas Chamkani, former union council nazim of the area Wasil Farooq Advocate and others. Speaking on the occasion, Khalid Waqas said that following the death of a patient who had been declared as positive with coronavirus, the government sealed four streets of the area.
The deserving people in the locality were in dire need of food items. In view of their needs, the volunteers of the foundation after adopting all the preventive measures advised by the health department reached the area and disbursed items of daily need like four, rice, sugar, ghee and other edibles among the deserving families. Meanwhile, the volunteers of the foundation continued their relief campaign in different districts of the province. Al-Khidmat Foundation has become the leading non-governmental organization making unprecedented contribution in the time of need especially during natural or man-made disasters. The volunteers of the foundation wearing yellow jackets can be seen everywhere in the province serving the people. The foundation has so far distributed relief packages among hundreds of thousands of families in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other provinces of the country. The most positive aspect of their relief activities is that they have managed to reach to all the deserving people irrespective of political and religious backgrounds. According to Khalid Waqas, the foundations’ volunteers have provided relief goods to Muslims and the minorities. The foundation has also handed over all its health and other facilities to the provincial government for utilization in the prevailing pandemic. The 92 ambulances and over 7000 trained volunteers have also been offered to the government for use in the time of need.
