Call for joint relief efforts

ISLAMABAD (APP)- The office bearers of Payyam Foundation here Sunday during a meeting urged all the stakeholders for collaborate and support relief efforts being underway for the Internally Displaced Persons IDPs of Malakand Division. The meeting was chaired by Foundation President Basit Subhani and the participants appealed the nation to fully support governments efforts for restoration of peace in the Malakand Division and elimination of terrorist elements.They also appealed to philanthropists of twin cities Islamabad and Rwalpindi to come forward and donate generously for IDPs. The participants were also briefed about Foundations relief efforts.Payyam Foundation can be contacted on cell no: 0300-8915037, said in a press release. Meanwhile, Minhaj Welfare Foundation (MWF) here on Sunday dispatched 15 trucks loaded with relief goods for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Swat, Buner and Lower Dir. Relief goods worth four million rupees contains edibles, tents, fans, water coolers, bedding and medicines, Naib Nazim-e-Ala Minhaj-ul-Quran International Sheikh Zahid Fayyaz told APP. He said general public as well as associates, workers and youth of his party were actively participating in the relief campaign and donating generously at the fund raising camps set up by the foundation in all the cities of the country. He said the MWF had set up four tent villages, two in Mardan, while one each in Nowshera and Jalala camps where around 200 IDP families had been lodged. Sheikh Zahid said the foundation had also hired some buildings in Mardan and Nowshera to accommodate the IDPs. He said the IDP families are being provided free of cost food in Minhaj tent villages, he added. He said two Minhaj Schools had been established at Mardan camps, where IDP kids are being imparted education. He said bags, books and other stationary was being provided free of cost to students in these schools. Zahid said Minhaj Welfare Hospital at Mardan was providing free of cost health facilities to the IDPs, adding that more welfare hospitals would also be set up at each of the IDP camps. A 15-member doctors team of MWF is arriving in Mardan from Karachi on Monday, which would conduct visits of IDP camps for holding checkups of displaced persons.

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