Mexico donates ambulances for Aceh

Mexico donates ambulances for Aceh

JAKARTA: The people of Mexico have donated 20 ambulance to be
operated in tsunami-hit Aceh and the island of Nias.

The ambulances were handed over in a ceremony here on Saturday
attended among others by Coordinating Minister for People's
Welfare Alwi A. Shihab, Mexican Ambassador for Indonesia Pedro
Gonzales Rubio Chancez, Indonesian Ambassador for Mexico Ahwil
Luthan, and representatives from Aceh and Nias.

"It's not rare that the people of Mexico, who wear simple
clothes and footwear, take money from their own pockets to be
donated to Aceh and Nias through the Indonesian Embassy in Mexico
(city)," Ahwil said, adding that total donations collected from
the Mexican people reached around US$8 million, of which about
half was used to purchase the ambulances and transport them to
Indonesia.

He added that the people of Mexico and its government had been
eager to help Indonesia despite economic difficulties in their
own country. -- Antara