Representatives from RAF carrying food items in a boat for distribution to poor people in an Island in Indonesia.
DOHA: Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) has distributed food baskets worth QR300,000 to more than 6,000 poor people in remote islands of Indonesia.
The project was implemented in hard-to-access areas in the islands located between north of Sumatra and west of Java in Indonesia. The project aimed at delivering aid materials to poor people who could not reach the distribution centres because they were far away from their homes or they could not afford the transpiration charges from their homes to the centres.
The project was financed by the people in Qatar as donations.
Most of the families living in these areas are poor. They do not have enough money to buy the daily food due to financial crisis caused by the natural disasters.
Hundreds of poor families, teachers of Holy Quran, preachers and students received food baskets with enough foods for two months.
Two local organizations, Al Resala and Al Raya, coordinated with RAF in the disbursal of the food material to the beneficiaries across the islands scattered over a large area.
A family received a basket comprising basic food items like rice, edible oil, pasta, milk, soya, flour, meat and biscuits for children, enough for two months.
Situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans, Indonesia is the world’s largest island country, with thousands of islands.
It is the world’s fourth most populous country, and the most populous Muslim country.
People are suffering from poverty and lack of resources due to natural disasters.
