August 3, 2021
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) administrator, Laeeq Ahmed, on Monday inaugurated a disinfectant spray campaign in the city to eradicate flies, mosquitoes and other insects that have sprung up after Eidul Azha and monsoon season.
The campaign has been launched with the assistance of Al-Khidmat, the welfare wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami. The campaign will run regularly in every district with the assistance of Al-Khidmat. A memorandum of understanding [MoU] has also been signed with Al-Khidmat to run the spray campaign in a highly active and effective manner, the KMC administrator said as he spoke to media persons after launching the campaign.
July 19, 2021
The Alkhidmat Foundation the Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) welfare wing spent Rs8.2 billion rupees for the public welfare and some 24 million individuals were directly helped by the organisation, showed the charity’s annual report released on Saturday.
Briefing the media about the charity’s progress at the Idara Noor-e-Haq, JI Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman and the Alkhidmat Chief Executive Naveed Ali Baig said the charity had played an active role during the Covid-19 epidemic and distributed not only rations and cooked food among tens of thousands of the affected people but also personal protection equipment against Covid-19 among frontline fighters, including doctors and nurses in both public and private sectors medical facilities.
A large number of volunteers took an oath for rendering their services to the Alkhidmat Foundation’s Disaster Management Cell in connection with the rain emergency looming large over Karachi.