Red Crescent’s relief work: Governor hands over keys of new homes to families

LAHORE: Twenty-six families in Chiniot finally have a roof over their heads after losing everything to last year’s floods. Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider Khan handed over the keys to their new homes at Ali Fatima Housing Society on Tuesday, joined by PPP Central Punjab General Secretary Syed Hassan Murtaza. The houses, built on eight kanals of land, were funded through a forty-million-rupee grant from the Red Crescent.

Addressing the gathering, the Governor called the PPP the only party truly standing for the poor, promising bread, cloth and shelter, and praised the Red Crescent’s relief work stretching from Sindh to Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He called on the government, philanthropists and welfare groups to join hands for disaster victims, and also weighed in on politics, the history of petrol pricing, and the debate over new provinces.

Murtaza thanked the Red Crescent team and revealed that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari plans to gift a hundred more houses and a hospital to the constituency. Red Crescents Mehboob Qadir Shah said the project was about more than bricks and mortar — it was a foundation for these families to rebuild their lives.

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