Timorese refugees receive more rice

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: East Nusa Tenggara Social Affairs Office said on Saturday that it would distribute some 1.35 tons of rice to 72 East Timorese refugee families in Boneanak settlement, West Kupang.

The office's social assistance division chairman Damran Saleh Pepageka said that besides rice, the office was also packing some packages of noodles, sugar, soap, corn and beans and fish for the refugees.

"We have given the rice to the office in the regency. I hope the officials there will distribute it soon.

"The assistance is expected to reach the refugees before the rainy season," he said, adding that the province would help the refugees until they were self-sufficient. --Antara