GP, BKMEA, SB, Ericsson, ASA take initiative to help flood victims
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
FE Report
Grameenphone Ltd, BKMEA, Sonali Bank and ASA have taken a number of initiatives to help the flood-hit people across the country.
Grameenphone:Grameenphone Ltd (GP) initiated an effort to provide primary healthcare support to the flood-affected people, as a part of its extensive relief programme.
With assistance from the armed forces and the local authorities, a medical camp has been set up at Beraid union under Badda in the city to provide free medical aid to the flood-affected people of Beraid, Shatarkul and Nasiabad unions.
GP has also set up a floating medical camp on an engine boat that will cover remote areas like Fakiskhali, Pachdir Tek, Chandar Tek, Trimohoni and Haradia areas.
These are the first of the six such medical camps to be opened by GP. Three other static medical camps will be set up to serve the flood-affected people of Satarkul, Khilgaon and Beraid. One camp will start operations in Sirajganj from today (Tuesday).
These camps are equipped with medical supplies to treat water-borne diseases and to combat the onset of other common post-flood diseases.
GP Director (Corporate and Regulatory Affairs) Khaled Hasan, Director (Administration and Projects) NKA Mobin and Acting Head (IT) Lutfur Rahman were present during the inauguration of the medical camps.
Since the onset of the flood, GP has distributed relief materials in Dhaka, Rajshahi and Sylhet divisions. The company has been providing cooked food to around 4,500 people in Badda everyday. It has also distributed around 2,500 family packs of basic food supplies in Bhatara union.
BKMEA:Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) and Narayanganj Chamber jointly arranged a relief distribution programme in Narayanganj Monday.
Adviser Anwarul Iqbal distributed relief materials among 400 flood-victim families in the programme.
Sonali Bank :All staffs and officers of Sonali Bank have donated their one-day's salary, amounting to Tk 5.5 million, to the Chief Adviser's (CA) relief fund for the country's flood-hit people.
Besides, the bank has decided to open a current account titled 'relief fund - 2007 for flood-affected people' in each of its branches to collect fund from the interested donors, and send the same to the CA's relief fund.
The subsidiary of Sonali Bank in the UK and the US have also advised to collect fund for the flood-hit people and transfer the same to the CA's fund.
Ericsson : The employees of Ericsson Bangladesh Limited (EBL) Monday donated Tk 2.5 million to the CA's relief fund for the flood-affected people.
The donation amount was a joint contribution of one-day salary of the EBL employees.
EBL Managing Director Arun Bansal handed over the donation cheque to Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed in a simple ceremony at the later's office. EBL Finance Director Mats Karlsson was also present on the occasion.
EBL MD said, "The members of the Ericsson family proved once again how Ericsson stands by the communities among which it operates. We always want to stand beside the people of this country in peace and prosperity and even in natural disaster."
ASA : ASA has taken up a plan to distribute interest-free loans among the flood-affected members of the organisation to recover the loss caused by the recent flood.
A launching ceremony to distribute such interest-free loans was held recently at ASA office in Fulchhari upazila under Gaibandha with ASA District Manager M Abdul Aziz in the chair. Fulchhari UNO M Habibur Rahman was present in the programme as the chief guest.
Grameenphone Ltd, BKMEA, Sonali Bank and ASA have taken a number of initiatives to help the flood-hit people across the country.
Grameenphone:Grameenphone Ltd (GP) initiated an effort to provide primary healthcare support to the flood-affected people, as a part of its extensive relief programme.
With assistance from the armed forces and the local authorities, a medical camp has been set up at Beraid union under Badda in the city to provide free medical aid to the flood-affected people of Beraid, Shatarkul and Nasiabad unions.
GP has also set up a floating medical camp on an engine boat that will cover remote areas like Fakiskhali, Pachdir Tek, Chandar Tek, Trimohoni and Haradia areas.
These are the first of the six such medical camps to be opened by GP. Three other static medical camps will be set up to serve the flood-affected people of Satarkul, Khilgaon and Beraid. One camp will start operations in Sirajganj from today (Tuesday).
These camps are equipped with medical supplies to treat water-borne diseases and to combat the onset of other common post-flood diseases.
GP Director (Corporate and Regulatory Affairs) Khaled Hasan, Director (Administration and Projects) NKA Mobin and Acting Head (IT) Lutfur Rahman were present during the inauguration of the medical camps.
Since the onset of the flood, GP has distributed relief materials in Dhaka, Rajshahi and Sylhet divisions. The company has been providing cooked food to around 4,500 people in Badda everyday. It has also distributed around 2,500 family packs of basic food supplies in Bhatara union.
BKMEA:Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) and Narayanganj Chamber jointly arranged a relief distribution programme in Narayanganj Monday.
Adviser Anwarul Iqbal distributed relief materials among 400 flood-victim families in the programme.
Sonali Bank :All staffs and officers of Sonali Bank have donated their one-day's salary, amounting to Tk 5.5 million, to the Chief Adviser's (CA) relief fund for the country's flood-hit people.
Besides, the bank has decided to open a current account titled 'relief fund - 2007 for flood-affected people' in each of its branches to collect fund from the interested donors, and send the same to the CA's relief fund.
The subsidiary of Sonali Bank in the UK and the US have also advised to collect fund for the flood-hit people and transfer the same to the CA's fund.
Ericsson : The employees of Ericsson Bangladesh Limited (EBL) Monday donated Tk 2.5 million to the CA's relief fund for the flood-affected people.
The donation amount was a joint contribution of one-day salary of the EBL employees.
EBL Managing Director Arun Bansal handed over the donation cheque to Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed in a simple ceremony at the later's office. EBL Finance Director Mats Karlsson was also present on the occasion.
EBL MD said, "The members of the Ericsson family proved once again how Ericsson stands by the communities among which it operates. We always want to stand beside the people of this country in peace and prosperity and even in natural disaster."
ASA : ASA has taken up a plan to distribute interest-free loans among the flood-affected members of the organisation to recover the loss caused by the recent flood.
A launching ceremony to distribute such interest-free loans was held recently at ASA office in Fulchhari upazila under Gaibandha with ASA District Manager M Abdul Aziz in the chair. Fulchhari UNO M Habibur Rahman was present in the programme as the chief guest.