The physicians wanted to keep supplying their needy patients with free samples of the expensive drugs, he said, and some doctors were found to be storing drug samples in their private offices, automobile trunks and homes.
Every week the priest at another Catholic church in Negombo supplies needy Christians with biscuits, rice, noodles and other provisions.
The Social Assistance Fund supplies the needy with medical payments and housing and food subsidies.
The aim is to increase access to banking in a country where two-fifths of households lack it.An obvious opportunity is for such new accounts to serve as conduits for the government to distribute welfare as cash rather than, as at present, to supply the needy with wasteful subsidies in kind.
The Kids in Need Foundation, which works to provide free school supplies to needy children and school districts, is participating in two contests this month, Target's and CommuniCause, which offers a "social media makeover" as a prize.
A spokesman for the Police Department said that no one asked for the knockoffs in 2009 — an explanation that was bewildering to the operators of the clothing bank, who run a warehouse that supplies clothing to needy New Yorkers.
Its mission is "to provide food, clothes, medical and school supplies for needy and abused children, homeless people and Native Americans on reservations," according to a filing with the State of Arizona.
The occasion was a benefit for Baby Buggy, Jessica Sklar Seinfeld's charity, which distributes baby supplies to needy mothers.
Coke was well-known in Jamaica as a businessman, and reportedly handed out cash and school supplies to needy children and used his authority to punish criminals.
Super Cigar Lounge IV was an intimate, 200-person fund-raiser benefiting Good Sports Inc., a nonprofit organization that donates athletic equipment and supplies to needy schools.
