Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BRCS) has started distributing Ramadan food items among 15,300 destitute and Covid-19 affected families across the country.
The humanitarian non-government organization launched the food package distribution programme on Sunday, initially distributing the packages among 500 host families of Ratnapalang and Haldia unions (250 families from each union) of Cox’s Bazar district.
The BRCS distributed the package, comprising of dates, pulses, soybean oil, sugar, salt, puffed rice (muri), flattened rice (chira), gram, gram flour, semai (vermicelli) and semolina (suji), under its Population Movement Operation (PMO) programme with the support of Qatar Red Crescent, said a press release here on Sunday.
The ultra-poor, destitute and lower income families and people with disabilities would get priority in selecting the beneficiaries of the food programme, it said.
