Sunday, May 15, 2011

Red Cross team accused of selling off rations

Workers of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), which has been providing food rations for flood victims in the Larkana relief camp, have been accused by locals of selling off the aid to shopkeepers, a charge the ICRC says it is investigating internally.


Locals allege that ICRC distribution teams stationed in Gharikhero, a village in the Naushehro Feroze district of Sindh, have been coaxing flood victims to give up their tokens (without which they cannot receive the aid) in exchange for a one-time supply of rations.

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