Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation for Development of Ukraine has paid out the first UAH 1.6m to 160 families that suffered following a gas blast in Dnepropetrovsk.

Rinat Akhmetov’s Foundation for Development of Ukraine has transferred first aid of UAH 1.6m to personal accounts of residents of 127, Mandrykovskaya Str., Dnepropetrovsk that became victims of gas explosion on 13 October. .

The press office of the Foundation for Development of Ukraine has reported that the aid would be paid first to families that have casualties.

The decision was made on 18 October at the meeting of Ad Hoc Coordinating Council consisting of Anatoliy Zabolotny, Director of Foundation for Development of Ukraine; Yuriy Vilkul, Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Chairman; and dwellers of the damaged house.

The money was allocated as follows: each apartment of the 1st and 2nd blocks will receive UAH 5,000; residents of the 4th block will get UAH 10,000, and residents of the 3rd block – UAH 20,000.

The press office reports the meeting of Coordinating Council scheduled for 25 October at 9.00 a.m. will firstly discuss the mechanism of allocating UAH 5m help to families of the killed people.

Individual issues are also supposed to be on the agenda.

As it was reported earlier, the Foundation for Development of Ukraine allocated UAH 10m help victims of the gas blast in Dnepropetrovsk. An Ad Hoc Coordinating Council was established to control distribution and payments. The Foundation calls the injured people that need help to address the headquarters located in school No.76 located in 2, Mandrykovskaya street.

Source: Obozrevatel

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