Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate a sponsorship scheme for daily wage earners during his visit to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa today.
During a day-long visit, the prime minister will chair an important meeting where he will review coronavirus precautionary measures being taken by the KP government.
The prime minister earlier on Thursday visited Quetta to assess the coronavirus situation in Balochistan. He was received by provisional Chief Minister Jam Kamal on arrival in the city. He was accompanied by federal ministers Asad Umar and Zubaida Jalal.
Ehsas and the Saylani Welfare International Trust (SWIT) have joined hands to run the facility through which cooked food would be provided to the needy, particularly labourers and daily-wage workers.
Mobile vans aimed to combat hunger will discourage people from congregating at one spot for free food collection and will serve at various points in cities including public places, impoverished neighbourhoods and hospitals while explicitly ensuring dignity and social distance for the safety of people.
As people are at the risk of small income generating opportunities due to the pandemic emergency in the country, this food aid concept will be stretched out soon to a bigger, better and faster scale across all major cities of Pakistan as part of the Ehsas framework.
