ISLAMABAD: Comprehensive Disaster Response Services (CDRS) and SABA Trust would provide uncooked food and other grocery items to Tarlai Panahgah (Shelter Home) to facilitate the beneficiaries.
Both of the organizations would provide 50 Kg Mutton and 50 kg Rice and other grocery items to the shelter home every week with the pledge to increase the quantity in future on fortnightly basis.
Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) Managing Director, Malik Zaheer Abbas Khokhar, founder CDRS, Todd Shea and Anns Ali from SABA Trust signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in a ceremony held at Panahgah of Tarlai on Tuesday.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Muhammad Khan also witnessed the signing ceremony.
Under the MoU, CDRS, SABA Trust would provide uncooked food and grocery items to PBM to facilitate the beneficiaries of Tarlai Shelter Home.
Commending the services of both the organizations, State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Muhammad Khan termed it an imperative support to the poor people of Pakistan.
Addressing the ceremony, PBM Managing Director expressed his gratitude to both of the organizations while appreciating their welfare services for impoverished and neglected segments of society.
He admired their compassionate humanitarian aid and emphasized the need to strengthen the knot in future to accomplish the social welfare tasks in the country.
Malik Zaheer Abbas, highlighting the scope of Panahgahs, told that at present 22 Panahgahs were operational throughout the country under the Ehsaas Programme of Prime Minister; each Panahgah is having capacity for 100 person’s night stay with breakfast, and dinner for around 400 persons.
Moreover, meals were also being served on the mobile food trucks under ‘Ehsaas Koi Bhooka Na Soey’ project.
Founder CDRS Todd Shea and Anns Ali from Saba Trust appreciated the initiative and regarded this project as a cornerstone of relief and plausible solution of poverty. Both the chiefs of the organization expressed their willingness for the collaborative efforts in future also.
Ali Muhammad Khan admired the leadership qualities of Khokar and applauded his vibrant and dynamic role for making the ‘Panahgah’ and ‘Koi Bhooka Na Soey’ project flourishing and glimmer of hope for the deprived community of the country.