DUSHNBE/KHUJAND, September 4, Asia-Plus — bank account of Tajikistan’s public charity is continuing to be replenished.
Open joint-stock company OryonBonk, Tajikistan’s largest commercial bank, has remitted 100,000 somonis to the charity’s bank account. The source at OryonBonk said that the donation is intended for disabled people and the vulnerable sections of Tajikistan’s population.
In the meantime, Sayfullo Ismatulloyev, the head of the AmonatBonk (Tajikistan’s savings bank) branch in Khujand, told Asia-Plus that the public and organizations in the Sughd province have remitted 354.861 somonis to the charity by September.
We will recall that addressing a meeting with representatives of all sections of population in Dushanbe on may 24 this year, President Emomali Rahmon urged the creation of a public charity fund for the poor.
He pointed out that despite annual growth of pensions and social allowances of 1,100,000 families in the country, 500,000 families live below the poverty line. Of 527,000 pensioners living in the country, 9,000 pensioners do not have relatives to support. Besides, on the list of the poor are 118,000 orphan children and 68,000 families without breadwinners.
To replenish ban account
The public charity was established on June 29.
