KSrelief Launches Programme to Support Food Security in Pakistan

Wed Jul 12 2023
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ISLAMABAD: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre has launched a food project in Pakistan to ensure food security for the year 2023-24 in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Authority.

KSrelief would distribute 105,000 food packages weighing 10,013 tons in 4 phases among the flood-hit areas, which would help the needy people in forty different districts across the country, said a press release issued by the Saudi embassy in Islamabad on Wednesday.

Initiative to benefit 735,000 individuals in Pakistan

It said that the initiative would benefit 735,000 individuals throughout Pakistan.

It added that each package weighing 95 kilograms, contains 80 kilograms of flour, 5 litres of cooking oil, five kilograms of Sugar, and 5 kg of Daal Chana, which would be sufficient for a family for the whole month.

The statement further said that the project comes under the umbrella of humanitarian initiatives of Saudi Arabia, represented by the KSrelief to help needy families and achieve food security for the neediest groups of communities in the country.

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