KARACHI: Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) announced Rs 5 million for relief activities in flood-affected areas of Balochistan. In a statement issued here, Patron-in-Chief KATI SM Muneer and President Salman Aslam said after record rains and floods, for severely affected parts of Balochistan, association constituted a relief committee that delivered first batch of relief goods to victims on five trucks.

SM Muneer said that they would not leave countrymen alone during time of need and KATI members and business community had actively contributed to relief fund while more efforts were underway. Salman Aslam said that he was in touch with local people and administration and a 7-member relief team of KATI was distributing relief goods in Khuzdar. He stressed on need of delivering relief goods, food items and medicines to several areas as a large number of affectees were living in tents in a state of disrepair.

KATI has also set up a relief fund in which members and business community were contributing immediate assistance for victims whose homes, property and assets had been washed away.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 24 2022

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