Timorese refugees to get 58 tons of rice

Timorese refugees to get 58 tons of rice

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Some 5,000 East Timorese refugees sheltering in Naibonat, Taupukan, and Noelbaki camps in East Nusa Tenggara will receive a total of 58 tons of rice.

Social Affairs Office head Husein Pancratius said on Friday that his office had given authority to the Timorese Refugees Presidium to distribute the rice, which had been provided by the central government and the provincial administration.

Erik Tavares of the presidium said that the rice would be distributed to 5,000 families in the refugees camps in Naibonat, Tuapukan and Noelbaki.

He also said that each family would receive up to seven kilograms of rice while the families of civil servants, the military as well as the police would not get any rice. --Antara