Timorese refugees receive more rice

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