PPL provides financial support worth Rs70m to flood affectees

Business Sep, 7 2022
PPL provides financial support worth Rs70m to flood affectees
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Karachi: As a frontline national E and P company, Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has yet again risen to occasion at time of national flood emergency to provide much-needed assistance to disaster-hit communities across country.  PPL’s Board of Directors has so far approved Rs 70 million for relief and rehabilitation of affected local communities in recent floods in Khyber Pakhtunkwa, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan. 

Recently, donation cheques of Rs 15 million each were presented by GMCS Syed Mahmood Ul Hassan to Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Dr. Shahzad Khan Bangash along with Director General, Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), Khyber Pakhtunkwa Shareef Hussain and Director General, PDMA, Punjab Faisal Fareed in Peshawar and Lahore. Further, Rs 15 million has been approved for Sindh, whereby relief goods, including ration bags and tents, have been directly dispatched to disaster-hit communities of province. Earlier, an amount of Rs 25 million was handed over to PDMA, Balochistan for flood affectees of province. In view of its on-going efforts to enhance quality of life for deserving population in country, PPL has received leading Corporate Philanthropy Award from Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy for 16 years, as largest corporate giver in terms of volume of donations. 

Published in The Daily National Courier, September, 07 2022

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