1,400 hygiene kits to be distributed in rural Sindh.

Karachi -- Oxfam has been engaging with local partners to actively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, as part of its ongoing response, Oxfam has initiated a distribution drive of hygiene kits in the province of Sindh.

In partnership with Management and Development Foundation (MDF), kits will be distributed amongst families belonging to low-income farming communities in Hyderabad, Tando Mohammed Khan and Badin Districts, said a press release issued here.

The beneficiaries of the distribution drive include women-led households that have continued working in the fields as COVID-19 continues to spread in the country. These frontline farmer families are in much need of safety kits and PPEs so that they can carry out essential work without contracting the disease.

Uzma Aftab, Country Director of Oxfam in Pakistan appreciated the distribution drive. 'It is incredibly important that we protect our food frontliners and farming community as they are working in these unprecedented circumstances without adequate protection against COVID-19,' she remarked.

'While many of us were living in the safety of a lockdown, our female food frontliners have been at the forefront of this pandemic, risking their lives to put food on our tables. Reaching out to them and providing them with hygiene kits and PPEs...