Rakshak Accident and Rescue Service
The service is providing help by getting medicines and other facilities for Covid care. The NGO helps people get medicines that are unavailable in their area. Those in need can contact Rakshak 24/7
Angamaly (Ernakulam)
Sehion Preshita Sangam
The organisation has been providing food for those in quarantine and also those suffering due to the lockdown, besides the poor. The central kitchen provides food for over 1,000 people and this sometimes goes above 2,000.
Edakochi
For Speech and Hearing Impaired
National Institute of Speech and Hearing (NISH) has launched a 24 7 helpline exclusively for speech and hearing-impaired persons.
The helpline offers counselling services to stress-related issues in addition to answering queries and concerns relating to Covid-19. Sign language interpreters are available to attend WhatsApp video calls.
The Idiroko Unit Command of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun has called on motorists and others road users to support the commission in its bid to minimise traffic accidents.
GCash helps adapt in the pandemic (1)
A safe and effective alternative to send/receive money without having to share one’s mobile number, GCash QR is a solution introduced by GCash as part of its partnership with AMTODA (Antipolo Market Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association) and ASCLP TODA, and with vendors at the Pasig City Mega Market.
“At the heart of this program is financial inclusion. We envision to enable micro and small businesses with the digital finance platform so they can enjoy its benefits at a time when they need it most. Many of them are frontliners too. We should also focus on helping them by providing them with tools so they can continue growing their businesses and serving their customers during the pandemic,” says Martha Sazon, President and CEO of GCash.
OOIDA, other groups petition House Democrats to reject insurance increases
More than 60 organizations representing the trucking, agriculture, construction, manufacturing, materials and towing industries are petitioning members of the U.S. House of Representatives to reject an increase of motor carriers’ minimum liability insurance requirements.
In letters sent to the Blue Dog Coalition of fiscally-responsible Democrats and the Problem Solvers Caucus – both of which seek commonsense solutions to various issues – the coalition explains that an insurance increase “is wholly unnecessary” and “would do nothing to improve highway safety and would have a severe negative impact” on their members due to significantly higher operational costs.
South Sudan offers $40,000 bounty on information, arrest of highway gangs
Wednesday May 05 2021
Summary
Last month, two Kenyan truck drivers were killed and two others went missing after they were ambushed on the highway.
Kenya Drivers Association, the lobby of long haul drivers, said six of their members had been killed on South Sudan’s highways this year alone. A Ugandan lobby group claimed a member had been clobbered in South Sudan and was in a coma.
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Juba,
Police in South Sudan have offered cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the mysterious gangs attacking Kenyan and Ugandan drivers on its highways.