Kathmandu, Apr 9
Zonta Club of Kathmandu has
distributed 1,000 food packages to daily wage earners to help them to cope with
the COVID-19 pandemic.
It distributed 1,000 food
packages – comprised of rice, lentils, pulses, cooking oil, beaten rice, salt,
sugar and tea - to the workers' families in Bijeshwori, Budhanilkantha, Dhalko,
Jagritinagar, Jorpati, Lele, Mahankal, Nagarjun, Sankhamool, Sinamangal, Thali,
Thapathali, Tokha Municipalities and Teku.
The club partnered with
organisations like Bikalpa, Nepal Mahila Samaj, Food for Life, ICDO, Sky
Foundation and some individual.
Although it targeted to
reach 300 families, it reached over 2,400 families by Wednesday, the club said.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 10 April 2020.
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