BCF distributes 1,000 food, cleaning parcels to quarantined Choman district

The Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF) on Wednesday began to distribute 1,000 parcels of food and cleaning items to the quarantined Choman district in Erbil province, as it recently recorded a spike in COVID-19 cases.

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF) on Wednesday began to distribute 1,000 parcels of food and cleaning items to the quarantined Choman district in Erbil province, as it recently recorded a spike in the highly infectious coronavirus disease, formally known as COVID-19.

In early June, Erbil’s Choman district reported a record 20 cases in a single day, the highest number of cases since the virus first hit the area. Following the spike, the district was put in quarantine for mass testing and to mitigate further spread of the disease, causing low-income families to face food shortages.

Eight hundred families in Choman district’s center and another 200 families in the Haji Omaran border town will benefit from the aid, Nechirwan Abdulwaheed, the BCF representative in Choman-Soran district, told Kurdistan 24.

The aid contains food parcels, including dry food, Abdulwaheed added. Cleaning items are also part of the BCF aid to the quarantined district and town, he said.

With regards to selecting the beneficiaries, “the administration of the district and town selects and guide the process,” Abdulwaheed told Kurdistan 24.

The BCF is one of the most active humanitarian NGOs in Kurdistan that often provides a substantial amount of aid to displaced persons and refugees in Iraq, the Kurdistan Region, and northern Syria. It also has multiple programs that aim to improve the lives of displaced children.

On Saturday, in coordination with Iraq’s Ministry of Displacement and Migration, the BCF delivered food packages to over 900 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Bahrka camp in Erbil province.

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The organization was founded in 2005 and, in its own words, “strives to honor the great legacy of Malla Mustafa Barzani, the leader of the Kurdish Liberation Movement and influencer of the contemporary Kurdish nation.”

Editing by Karzan Sulaivany