UEA organization helping flood victims

UEA organization helping flood victims

JAKARTA (JP): An Abu Dhabi-based social service organization have provided free medical services and donated food supplies for some 1,200 people affected by the recent floods here.

The Abu Dhabi Welfare Organization deployed 17 doctors and paramedics to give the residents of the badly-stricken subdistricts of Jatinegara and Bukit Duri basic medical checkups and treatment on Friday. It also spent US$15,000 to provide 300 families with packages of instant noodles, rice and milk.

The organization will hold a similar drive for flood victims in several towns in Aceh next week, spokesman Taufik Bachtiar said.

Free

In addition, the organization also plans to provide free breaking of the fast meals to 8,000 people in the coming fasting month of Ramadhan.

Around 1,000 people will be invited to join a breaking of the fast meal with the United Arab Emirates' Ambassador Said Alkindi next week. A fund of $18,000 has been provided for the program.

"We also plan to give some 300 religious teachers in various schools in Jakarta (post-Ramadhan) Idul Fitri presents," Taufik said.

Poor

The Abu Dhabi Welfare Organization, which routinely holds such drives every year, plans to also distribute 23 tons of rice for the poor during Ramadhan.

In 1994, the organization provided similar services to victims of tidal waves in some villages in Banyuwangi, East Java. It also brought 15 engineers and experts to educate villagers about sanitation, as well as built nine public toilets and six wells and water tanks. (swe)