Staff at the Holiday Inn Dubai - Al Barsha will be manning collection and sorting areas in their free time, while an appeal to guests to donate a dollar at check-out as well as every Iftar has already started to see dividends.
Donations (
see list attached) can be made throughout the day at the hotel reception or left with the night concierge at other times, with sorting and packaging carried out at the Gharana restaurant from 20.00 hours onwards.
Mrs Jaffer stressed the hotel was already working closely with local community organisations in Pakistan to ensure all funds and items of clothing, blankets, medicine and dry foods reach the hands of the displaced.
Last year the Holiday Inn Dubai – Al Barsha had organised a similar campaign for Al Noor Center for Children with Special Needs in Dubai.
For more information, please contact 04 323 4333:
www.holidayinn.com or
www.hialbarshadubai.com
Based on the UN recommendations the following items are required urgently:
Food: (non perishable items only):
Rice, lentils, red kidney beans, pulses and other grains, packaged dates, nuts/dry-fruits in packets, cooking oil, spices/salt;
Tea/sugar/dried milk/high energy biscuits
Medicine:
Water purifying tablets, antiseptic creams, anti malarial tablets;
Treatments for typhoid, cholera, infection;
Painkillers, including Paracetamol, Bruffen, Voltaren, buscopan, Panadol, Adol, Disprin, Septran, Ponstan;
Anti diarrhea, anti emetics (vomiting);
Dettol, antibacterial soap, iodine for water sterilization;
Antibiotics - Amoxillin, Augmentine, Actified;
Cough syrup/tablets;
Glucose, multivitamins, oral rehydration solutions;
Boxes of bandages.
Clothing/Bedding:
Clothes of any size, for men, women and kids plus shawls, jackets, blankets.
