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Four trucks kickstart anti-hunger programme
CM says Iftar will also be offered to people on the routes
A villager prepares roti (bread) in her mud house in the village Bhattian Jivery at Tharparkar June 25, 2008. Soaring food prices and shortages of staples mean about 77 million people of Pakistan s 160 million population are food insecure, a 28 percent increase over the past year, according to U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) estimates. The term food insecure means people are unable to get sufficient nutritious food to meet dietary needs. Picture taken June 25, 2008. To match feature PAKISTAN-HUNGER/ REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN) - RTX7TSP
LAHORE:
Daily Times
April 12, 2021
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Sunday inaugurated “Koi Bhuka Na Soye ” programme in Lahore, in order to protect the poor people from inflation and price hike.
Under the programme, the poor and labour classes would be provided nearly 10,000 free meal boxes twice a day through mobile trucks at various points of Lahore. The programme was initially launched in two cities of Punjab Lahore and Faisalabad.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, the CM said that feeding others is a Sunnah as well as the tradition of Punjabis, and added that the Punjab government has initiated the programme across the province by following PM Imran Khan’s “Koi Bhuka Na Soe” project. Four trucks in Lahore and two in Faisalabad will provide lunch and supper respectfully to the destitute, especially labours and passengers, he announced