Chief Secretary also directed the district administration and relief department to pay special emphasis on sanitary requirements of females and nutrition requirements of children and infants
PESHAWAR
Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shahzad Bangash on Monday appealed to people, philanthropists to give their donations to only reputed and registered organizations with previous experience of donations collection and distributions and discourage unregistered and individual efforts.
He also urged people and volunteers to give their donations in kind and deposit cash donations to official relief funds only so that it could be distributed among genuine affectees.
In a letter to the district administration the Chief Secretary also directed the district administrations to check the credentials of unregistered organizations and individuals collecting the flood donations and dismantle all such camps.
He also directed to conduct need based assessment to determine the required goods and the quantity to avoid duplication of efforts and also emphasized on collection of clothing, beddings, hygiene kits, mosquito repellants, general use medicines and dry ration for the flood affectees.
The Chief Secretary also directed the district administration and relief department to pay special emphasis on sanitary requirements of females and nutrition requirements of children and infants.
He said that collection through major charity organizations shall be routed through district administrations to ensure optimal distributions, adding that an inventory shall be maintained by DC concerned to ensure all affected areas were covered. The Chief Secretary said that efforts should be made to protect philanthropists against fraud or lack of transparency.
