Japanese NGO to aid COVID-19 affected families in Mansehra

Mansehra is one of the worst affected districts by pandemic after Peshawar and Mardan

International Japanese NGO has announced emergency support for deserving families in the Mansehra District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) as a goodwill gesture amid COVID-19. The scale of the support is 711,500 Japanese Yen (Rs 1 million).

Mansehra is the most coronavirus affected district in the province after Peshawar and Mardan. The NGO has already provided food packages to 165 deserving families along with sanitation kits in the Haripur District.  

The NGO KnK (Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi, Children without Borders), which has been active in Pakistan since 2005, is also creating awareness about hygiene among the local communities in KPK. School children were educated on how they can take precautions, including washing hands regularly, to avoid coronavirus. The NGO also helped locals in sanitizing homes, roads, and mosques in the area. KnK has previously worked on projects related to girls education as well.

KnK has also provided Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) and other essential medical equipment to three hospitals where coronavirus patients are being treated. The equipment was distributed with the help of a Pakistan NGO Friends Welfare Association.

Friends Welfare Association partnered with the Japanese government in an educational project in 2019. Executed in 2019, it was known as ‘The Project for Construction of Primary and Middle School in Village Toheedabad, UC Bartooni, Torghar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.’

While expressing his views on the relief assistance being provided by the Japanese NGO KnK, H.E. Matsuda Kuninori, Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, has said that all of this emergency support is funded by personal donations from the people of Japan for the people of Pakistan in this difficult time.

“This support shows the longstanding friendship between Japan and Pakistan as well as the strong will to stand by those in need to fight against COVID-19. I believe that such good-will gestures will continue in the future,” emphatically said the Ambassador.

Other NGOs from Japan, such as AAR-Japan, have been active in relief efforts as well. Last month, AAR-Japan distributed relief assistance such as food packages and hygiene kits in the targeted areas of the Mansehra district to help and support the vulnerable families after the outbreak of COVID-19.

Sayyar Gul
Sayyar Gul is doing his MS Computational Sciences & Engineering from National University of Science and Technology. He is technology enthusiast with keen interest in new technological developments from around the world.

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