Daily Times

The Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has set upped a fund for welfare of daily wagers, who are the worst hit by coronavirus outbreak in the country.

In a press statement, PIAF Chairman Mian Nauman Kabir said the members initiated donating liberally and by the grace of God, an amount of Rs3 million is assembled in just a single day.

The statement further said after negotiations with other members of PIAF the decision was took the noble initiative to help the poor in their testing times.

Mian Nauman Kabir said that the PIAF would continue to fulfill its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as it has the understanding that the government alone cannot cope with the mass devastation caused by the pandemic.

The chairman said that the PIAF has always played its role at all testing times and credit goes to its members who gave maximum for the help of the deprived.

He said that business community has to perform an extraordinary role as the situation has become too grave to be handled by the government alone.

“Presently this fund is launched for Lahore specific labourers. In the first phase, the PIAF team will distribute Ration of food items in all industrial estates and all major labour intensive markets, including Shahalam market, Anarkali, Akbari Mandi, Railway Station and Bhati Darbar etc.

Authorities have been scrambling to control the spread of the virus, although they do not yet appear to be at a level that could overwhelm Pakistan’s fragile healthcare system.