Villagers in southeast Pakistan are getting a helping hand thanks to Canadian volunteers.
New West resident Mike Hoyer is among a group of volunteers currently travelling around Sindh, a southeastern province where drought has caused malnutrition, lack of water for drinking and irrigation, problems with sanitation and death.
Hoyer, a volunteer for the Canadian Food Grains Bank, arrived in Pakistan last week to help with the final days of a food distribution project sponsored by World Renew. So far, he and his fellow volunteers have distributed 2,000 packages of food at four different locations.
According to Hoyer, each package is worth about $50 and includes flour, rice, lentils, tea, sugar, dates, matches and cooking oil. The packages are meant to feed a family of about eight to 12 people for one month. By the end of the trip, the organization will have distributed about 4,500 packages, which will feed about 35,000 people, Hoyer told The Record in an email from Pakistan.
