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)