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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A Kurdish NGO has distributed food packages to thousands of Kurdistan Region families struggling to make ends meet under the added pressure of a coronavirus lockdown, heads of the organisation told Rudaw on Saturday.The 5,000 packages have been provided by the, an NGO established in 2013 whose work focuses on young people and other vulnerable groups. Each box contains 50 kilos of rice, 25 kilos of flour, 12 liters of cooking oil, 12 cans of tomato paste, and 10 kilos of sugar, among other items - enough to feed "a family of four for more than two months,” Rwanga's general manager Abdulsalam Madani said.“The campaign covers all Kurdistan [Region], not only in a single province. We have coordinated with governors, mayors, JCC [Joint Crisis Centre], and even general directorates of labor and social affairs [ministry] because they have their own list of poor families,” he said.The aid is being provided first and foremost for society's most marginalised, including widows, families with members who have special needs, and those living in temporary accommodation, Rwanga's Sulaimani office head Amanj Ahmed told Rudaw.Lockdowns to curb spread in the virus in the Kurdistan Region's two biggest cities of Erbil and Sulaimani were first implemented on March 13, before expanding to become region wide.Restrictions on movement have exacerbated already difficult living conditions for the Kurdistan Region's poorer residents. With work deemed non-essential grinding to a halt, many have been deprived of their main source of income.A number of other organizations have distributed aid to economically disadvantaged communities in a bid to ease the pressure of lockdown, including the Barzani Charity Foundation, which works regionwide with refugees, the internally displaced and other vulnerable people."I hope the humanitarian organizations come to the camp and see our situation,” resident of Duhok's Domiz camp Sherzad Osman. “We need assistance at this time, because there are no jobs for us, since no one is coming out of their houses. Everyone is worried about their health and that of their children.”Kurdistan Region camps house 787,705 Iraqi IDPs and 264,720 Syrian refugees, according to the latest available