Grameen Shikkha (Grameen Education), one of the organisations in the Grameen family, has identified 163 families with 815 members and arranging emergency food support for them for three months.   The ideal food package comprises 7kg rice, 1kg lentil, 1litre cooking oil, 5kg potatoes and a piece of bath soap for a week, said a media release.    GS has been conducting different development programmes for the poor, especially poor children and students for more than two decades. Its programmes have directly benefited more than 360,000 people.   One of the programmes of Shikkha is the non-formal primary school programmes, popularly called as “Slum School,” conducted in the slums of Mirpur 10, 11, 12 and 13.    There are 39 such schools, which are providing five years primary education to nearly 1,500 poor, slum children. 

PRAN-RFL Group is providing dried food items among 40 thousand families of more than 20 districts of the country including the capital, who have become affected by the lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak.   The food items include flattened rice, puffed rice, noodles, cake, biscuit, toast, milk and juice.   Local public representatives and administration are helping to distribute the products.