UWT distributes Eid packages

PESHAWAR: The Ummah Welfare Trust distributed Eid packages among the poor and the needy in Ghundo Shamozai village in Katlang tehsil in Mardan district.

At a function held recently, 50 families received the packages that included rice, sugar, tea leaves, lentils, powdered milk, cooking oil, dates, salt, matchboxes, etc.

The recipients included widows, orphans, disabled, students of madrassas, old and ailing and deserving poor.

Local elders and notables attended the distribution ceremony held in Ghundo Shamozai. The Shama Welfare Organization hosted the event and its President Zameen Nawab welcomed the guests.

Senior journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Katlang, Gulshed Khan and others spoke on the occasion.

The Ummah Welfare Trust, led in Pakistan by Maulana Idrees with assistance from the country head Syed Imran, is a United Kingdom-based international relief and development charity working in many countries since 2001.

Its head office in Pakistan is at Sorya Khail near Akora Khattak in Nowshera district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It also runs a quality educational institution at Sorya Khail for orphaned children. Every year, Ummah Welfare Trust distributes Ramazan packages and Winter Kit among the needy and deserving people all over Pakistan.

Wheelchairs distributed in Katlang: The Akhuwwat Foundation distributed 19 wheelchairs among the disabled persons at an event held in Mardan district.

The event was held at Ghundo Shamozai in Katlang tehsil in Mardan district. It was attended by local elders, notables, government officials and the recipients and their family members.

The Shama Welfare Organization organized the event and helped Akhuwat to identify the needy among the disabled for providing them the wheelchairs.

The disabled who were provided the wheelchairs hailed from different villages in Katlang tehsil. Among them were men and women and children.

The wheelchairs were sent by Akhuwat from Lahore. Another 22 wheelchairs would be sent soon to bring the total to 42.

Akhuwat Mardan regional head Rizwanullah and his colleague Faizan Ashraf attended the distribution ceremony. Rizwanullah in his speech noted that Akhuwat began its journey in 2001 when its founder Dr Muhammad Amjad Saqib arranged an interest-free loan of Rs10,000 for a widow who returned it after six months. “Now Akhuwat has provided interest-free credit of Rs65 billion and its recovery rate is nearly 99 percent. It has enabled hundreds of thousands of families to stand on their feet,” he added.