Red Cross helps underprivileged

Red Cross helps underprivileged

JAKARTA (JP): Some 5,000 youths from the Jakarta Red Cross
organized a day of social services for the poor at its head
office on Jl. Kramat Raya in Central Jakarta yesterday.

The activities included free medical checkups, cataract
operations, circumcisions and free spectacles for primary school
students.

Jakarta Red Cross spokesman Eko Rianto told The Jakarta Post
that 120 people received free medical services, which were
handled by doctors from the Indonesia Red Cross Headquarters and
City Military Office.

"The people who got the free services were registered with our
five subbranches in the city. Priority was given to primary
school children whose parents lack money," said Eko.

The Jakarta Red Cross youths were from primary schools and
junior and senior high schools from all five mayoralties in the
city.

The organizers also donated clothes, books and stationery to
50 senior citizens and 50 foster children.

At the same time, a bazaar was held jointly by nearby Pasar
Senen traders offering nine staple foods at low prices. (07)