Veilomani Food Bank Initiative receives further boost

The Veilomani Food Bank Initiative today received further boost as it received a truckload of food items from the New Zealand, Australia, US, UK and Japan government.

The items include flour, sugar, rice, biscuits, salt, onions, potatoes and other necessities.

While receiving the items, Minister for Local Government, Premila Kumar thanked the five countries for their assistance.

Kumar says the initiative was earlier used to assist those who were affected by being in quarantine in lockdown areas but since they only have 4 active cases, the items will now be used to assist people who have been affected by COVID-19 such as being sent home on leave without pay or working on reduced hours.

She says they had distributed food hampers to 319 households from HARTS and 16 hampers to families in informal settlements last week.