After effective services in rescue, relief of flood victims, Al-Khidmat focusing on rehabilitation.

PESHAWAR -- Al-Khidmat Foundation, one of the leading non-governmental organization fully dedicated to humanitarian service, has announced diversion of its activities from rescue and relief to rehabilitation of victims of the devastating floods in Khyber Pakhtunkwa.

'After providing rescue and relief services to thousands of victims of floods in fully destroyed 12 districts of KP by spending around Rs. 600 million, we are now initiating our rehabilitation services,' announces Khalid Waqas, President Al-Khidmat Foundation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Addressing a press conference here at Peshawar Press Club on Friday, Khalid Waqas said rehabilitation programme will cover both short term and long term measures for the help of victims of disastrous calamity.

In the first phase of rehabilitation, Al-Khidmat will provide temporary built model homes to people displaced due to destruction of homes. These model homes will comprise of small rooms, kitchen and a toilet.

Similarly, Khalid Waqas continued the organization will focus on provision of clean drinking water by cleansing of wells and hand pumps which are now spewing brackish water not drinkable and injurious to health.

The rehabilitation phase will also concentrate on restoration of mosques and reconstruction of fully damaged houses.

Sharing details of rescue and relief work, President Al-Khidmat apprised newsmen that more than 7000 experienced volunteers helped in shifting of more than 6000 people who became stranded due to inundation of their houses and localities.

The foundation, he continued, has established tent city and field hospital, distributed food packages for one month among 21,000 flood affectees, supplied more than 1050 cauldrons filled with cooked meals, 555 number of tents, 860 tarpaulin, 350 mosquito nets, 1783 kitchen sets and other essential items.

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