Dubai /United Arab Emirates/ New Delhi: Aster Volunteers imbibed with sense of selfless service is taking milk of human kindness far and wide.
One lakh fifty thousand (150,000) Salma food packets came as a manna from Jannat (heaven) to starving people in Somaliland. Dr. Azad Moopen, the benign NRI health honcho in Dubai, has taken it upon himself to reach out to humans wherever they are in distress. ‘Aster @30’ is creating benchmark in philanthropy which is quite in keeping with the declaration of 2017 as the ‘Year of Giving’ by UAE President, His Highness, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Ever Since May when Aster DM Healthcare launched its Volunteers Program in Delhi to aggregate humanity for sick and dying, its Foundation has been leaving no stone unturned to reach out to stranded people wherever they are. The largesse for Somalia is part of that avowed endeavour. Compassion has ever been the article of faith with Aster DM Healthcare. In India too, its endeavour is making marks among people.
Aster Volunteers joined hands with Al-Hayat Foundation humanitarian workers in Somalia, to support the ongoing relief efforts and aid in the safe distribution of over 150,000 meal packets to the famine affected and the displaced Somalis at Buraco in Somaliland, in presence of their regional Vice Governor Mr. Mohammed Hayd.
Commenting on the initiative Dr. Azad Moopen, Founder Chairman & Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a leading private healthcare provider in the Middle East and India, said, ‘As of June 2017, around 3 million people, an estimated one quarter of Somalia’s population, are experiencing acute food shortages at crisis or emergency levels and 363,000 children are suffering from malnutrition. ‘Aster’ aspires to be responsible members of the international community to think about others, and to do what we can to alleviate the suffering of those in less fortunate conditions than we are. The people of Somalia have long struggled with both violence and scarcity, and it is our honor and our duty at Aster DM Healthcare to assist in any way we can’.