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CAFU and Al Ihsan provides free fuel

CAFU collaborates with Al Ihsan Charity Association to Provide Free Fuel for Low-Income Families in Ajman…reports Asian Lite News

As a community first business, CAFU, the region’s first on-demand fuel-delivery and car services company serves the communities in which it operates through the services it provides to make life better for drivers and takes pride in the community initiatives it supports. Unveiling its latest community initiative, CAFU has partnered with the Al Ihsan Charity Association to support low-income household families and individuals in the Emirate of Ajman.

Supporting Al Ihsan’s efforts to strengthen community initiatives amongst public and private entities, CAFU allocated eight fuel trucks to provide free fuel to over 100 households in the Emirate, over the last two days.

Rashid Abdullah Ahmed Al Ghurair, founder and CEO of CAFU, said “As a company that goes the extra mile to serve the community, CAFU is proud of this partnership with Al Ihsan Charity Association to support low-income families and individuals. An initiative that falls within the framework of building collaborations to enhance community cohesion and spread a culture of social solidarity.”

Sheikh Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Ali bin Rashid Al Nuaimi, CEO of Al Ihsan Charity Association, stressed the need to coordinate with strategic partners to unify efforts in support of low-income families and individuals to achieve the association’s strategic plan.

Sheikh Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuaimi valued CAFU’s initiative to support low-income families and individuals, expressing his happiness for the fruitful cooperation with the company to alleviate the burdens of this group of society. Both entities will sign a joint memorandum of understanding for more collaborations in the future.

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As a community-driven business, CAFU continues to play a role in supporting local communities across the UAE, from collaborating with Dubai Health Authority (DHA) to offer free fuel to frontline workers, to partnering with local entities to support blue-collar workers and low-income families.

In their bid to giving back to the community, last month, CAFU also donated IT Equipment valued at AED 26,000 to Al Noor Rehabilitation & Welfare Association for Persons with Disabilities, to support children in classrooms as well ensure every child continues to get the best standard of education during unprecedented times.

In further contributions from the private sector to support the UAE’s efforts against Covid-19, in 2020 the pioneering tech company also announced their commitment to providing all ambulance vehicles that are operated by the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services (DCAS) with free fuel for a period of two weeks.

Guwahati’s cycling community turns relief riders

He said the volunteers are delivering the goods maintaining all the Covid protocols and standard operating procedures (SOPs) during non-curfew hours…reports Sujit Chakraborty.

The Guwahati cycling community, which had started its mission a couple of years ago to protect the environment and save fuel, besides popularising cycling as a mode of recreation, is now helping Covid patients, ailing people and senior citizens.

The ‘Cycling Community’ of Guwahati launched the ‘Relief Riders’ mission two weeks ago to serve Covid patients, ailing people, senior citizens and those in distress with essential items, including food and medicines.

One of the pioneers of the ‘Relief Riders’ mission, Arshel Akhter, said that riding their bicycles, the members of the cycling community are delivering prepared food, medicines, vegetables, fruits, groceries and other essential items to those in need without charging anything for delivery.

“Through online mode or by making cash payments, the beneficiaries are paying for their required items and our volunteers are delivering the essentials at the doorsteps of the people or at the Covid Care Centres,” Akhter said.

He said the volunteers are delivering the goods maintaining all the Covid protocols and standard operating procedures (SOPs) during non-curfew hours.

According to Akhter, who was named ‘Bicycle Mayor’, an honourary position conferred by the Amsterdam-based social enterprise BYCS, the Relief Riders mission currently has 16 volunteers in different parts of Guwahati and the numbers are increasing since the mission was launched on May 17.

The volunteers are aged between 22 and 59 years, who are delivering the essential items within a radius of 3 km from their respective homes.

He said the Relief Riders mission was started in Guwahati following the footsteps of Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Jaipur and a few other cities, where the cycling community got together to help the people in need.

Bikash Doley, an entrepreneur and a volunteer for the Relief Riders mission, said that the Bengaluru team had guided them to devise a simplified process to operate the entire scheme.

“We have a few helpline numbers where people can call to place their orders. Once we get the orders, we post them in our internal group alerting the rider staying nearest to the beneficiary. We try to keep all transactions contact less by encouraging digital modes of payment. We also follow social distancing measures, personal hygiene and wearing of masks etc.,” Doley said.

Another volunteer, Siddharth Bhattaroy, said that they are also saving fuel, protecting the environment and preventing carbon dioxide emissions by using bicycles, which can also pass though narrow lanes and by-lanes with ease.

Cycling enthusiast Ripunjoy Gogoi said that if a medicine or some essential good is not available near the requester’s place, the group forms a relay team to deliver the item to the concerned citizen.

The senior most Relief Rider member, Gautam Choudhury, said that the volunteers’ strength is growing daily and they expect more people to join their mission to reach out to needy people.

Meanwhile, ‘World Bicycle Day’ would be observed on June 3 through numerous events. The Guwahati Active Mobility Forum would organise some competitions for people of different age groups on the occasion.

Akhter said the UN in 2018 had declared June 3 as the ‘World Bicycle Day’.

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