Rangpur Zilla Protibondhi Adhikar Sangstha (RZPAS) distributed food assistance among 50 disabled families of ten unions under Mithapukur upazila of in Rangpur district.
It distributed the food assistance with the assistance of Handicap International, Humanity and Inclusion Bangladesh and UKaid to assist 200 disabled people of 50 families in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
The three donor organisations extended the food assistance under the “Taking Successful Innovation to Scale Pathways for Disability and Inclusive Graduation out of Poverty Bangladesh” being implemented by RZPAS with their funding in the upazila since 2018.
The RZPAS executives distributed the food assistance at a function held on Thursday at Boldipukur Abhiram Nurpur Salamia Madrasha ground in Mithapukur upazila strictly maintaining physical distance and abiding by the health directives.
Each of the beneficiary families received a sac containing five kg of rice, one kg each of pulse, potato, edible oil, iodized salt and onion, two pieces of soap, 500 gram of detergent powder, five packets of oral saline and 20 pieces of Paracetamol tablets. With President of RZPAS Rabiul Islam in the chair, its General Secretary Hasanur Rahman, President of “Shothibari Mohila Swanivor Samobaya Samity’ in Mithapukur Rely Begum attended the function. Project Implementation Field Officer of RZPAS Nur Alam moderated the function.
