DHCF, SADCFI distribute 8,000 bags of relief goods to “Yolanda”victims

By Gideon C. Corgue

PAGADIAN CITY – In addition to the 5,000 bags of relief goods earlier delivered to Bantayan Island in Cebu, another 3,000 bags will be distributed today for the typhoon survivors in Tacloban City.

This was announced by Saleh Zaher, director of Mohammed Bin Al Rashid Moktuon Humanitarian Charity Est. in Dubai and Ustadz Nasser Maulana, president of Southeast Asia Development Committee Foundation, Inc. (SADCFI) in a press conference held on Wednesday at the SADCFI’s office here.  

Zaher said Vice President Mohammed Bin Al Rashid Moktuon of Dubai, who is also the president of Dubai Humanitarian Charity Foundation (DHCF) has ordered them to immediately fly to Philippines to extend relief goods for super typhoon “Yolanda” victims in the hardest hit areas in Central Visayas.

Zaher, along with Faisal Alshehi, DHCF operations manager who arrived in Manila on Nov, 15, met with the officers of SADCFI to discuss their plans of distributing relief goods to typhoon survivors in Central Visayas.

Zaher said it was their first time to visit the Philippines.  “Our mission in your country is to help survivors who begged for food, water, and medicines in the severely affected areas,” Zaher said.

Zaher added that last Nov. 16, DHCF officers and SADCFI personally delivered the first batch of 5,000 bags of relief goods consisting of 25 kilos of rice, one dozen canned goods, one dozen noodles, and two kilos of sugar, soap, and candles  to the victims of “Yolanda” in Bantayan Island, Cebu.

“The relief goods will be equally distributed to the victims regardless of race, nationality, color, ethnicity and religion. Whether the victim is Christian or Muslim, he will receive the relief goods,” Maulana assured.  

Maulana said group left Pagadian City at 7a.m. today to deliver second batch of truck load of relief goods to the hardest hit areas in Tacloban City to help ease the sufferings of the victims.

Zaher thanked the Philippine government for allowing them to enter the country and the SADCFI for facilitating the distribution of relief goods, as they do not exactly know the areas affected by the typhoon. (PIA9)