1,000 food ham­pers have been de­liv­ered to fam­i­lies strug­gling dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. On Fri­day the char­i­ta­ble ges­ture was done by the Khair Foun­da­tion sup­port­ed by the Is­lam­ic De­vel­op­ment Bank “COVID-19 Re­lief Project”.

The ham­pers were dis­trib­uted main­ly to some 25 Ja­maahs through­out Trinidad for Mus­lims and non-Mus­lims.

This takes the to­tal num­ber of Ja­maahs that re­ceived food ham­pers from this project to 50, in­clud­ing To­ba­go.

To date, 4,500 ham­pers have been pro­vid­ed to the pub­lic through this project. The project, ac­cord­ing to its or­gan­is­er Im­ti­az Mo­hammed, aims to sup­ply a to­tal of 5,000 ham­pers.

"So we have a bal­ance of 500 to sup­ply," Mo­hammed said.

He said the sec­ond phase of this project will en­tail the free dis­tri­b­u­tion of med­ica­tion to the less for­tu­nate.

"This med­ical dis­tri­b­u­tion has been de­layed due to the late sup­ply of some of the med­ica­tion. We will con­tin­ue to up­date you on this mat­ter," Mo­hammed said.

The project, val­ued at $1.6 mil­lion, was launched on De­cem­ber 10, 2020, with fund­ing main­ly from the Is­lam­ic De­vel­op­ment Bank and it is ex­pect­ed to come to a close in March this year.

Any­one who needs med­ical as­sis­tance can con­tact Im­ti­az Mo­hammed at 680-3460.