Brac launches food support at city slums
The Urban Development Programme of Brac yesterday started essential food package distribution campaign for poor people in two major slums of the capital -- Korail in Banani and Shahidnagar in Lalbagh amid the coronavirus outbreak, said a press release.
Brac will distribute 7,500 food packages door to door to the extreme poor and daily wage earners, who have been without work since the government imposed a country-wide "general leave" last Thursday.
The packages each contain 7kg rice, 1kg lentil, 1kg edible oil, 1kg salt, 2kg flour, two hand soaps, and half kg detergent powder.
Brac has also undertaken different measures, such as awareness-building, hand-washing campaigns, disinfecting public places and transports, distributing hand sanitisers, liquid soap and soap bars, and disbursing cash to those in need in 20 cities of the country.
During yesterday's distribution programme in Korail, UDP Director Md Liakath Ali said in the last two weeks they have worked for building awareness on frequent hand-washing, maintaining physical distance and disinfected public places and transports to contain the pandemic.
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