Coronavirus in UAE: Dar Al Ber Society distributes over 130,000 meals to labourers

To help labourers in UAE overcome the effect of Covid-19 outbreak, Dar Al Ber Society has distribute over 130,000 meals to the labourers at various labour camps around the UAE.

Dar Al Ber Society had formed a task force to identify the labourers who are facing food shortage due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

After identifying the needy labourers, Dar Al Ber Society has been delivering meal packets for breakfast, lunch and dinner to the labourers. The labourers are receiving vegetarian or non-vegetarian based on their requirement.

To comply with the guidelines of UAE government, Dar Al Ber Society is ensuring the highest level of cleanliness while preparing and delivering the meal packets to the labourers. To achieve this, Dar Al Ber Society has instructed all the camp supervisor to not let people gather to collect meal packets, instead, the camp supervisor delivers the meal packets to the rooms of the labourers.

"Providing food to the needy is one of the main focus of Dar Al Ber Society's humanitarian activities. So, we decided to help labourer affected by the present circumstances" said, Dr. Hisham Al Zahrani, Deputy Director, Social Sector, Dar Al Ber Society.

"We would like to thank Dar Al Ber Society for providing us with breakfast, lunch and dinner at our doorsteps. Now we get food inside our rooms without going out of our camp. This is a big relief for all of us at this time", said, Jayaram, supervisor at a labour camp at Sonapur.

The society has been distributing hygiene kits consisting of sanitisers, masks, soaps, toothpaste, toothbrush, etc. It  has already distributed over 15,000 sanitisers, soaps, etc.

"If anyone would like to contribute in our initiatives,  kindly contact us at: [email protected]", Dr. Hisham added.