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Poverty assistance is one of the 17 departments that Resala has. Receiving, preparing, repackaging, packing, transporting and delivering food bags to poor families is among the activities of the poverty assistance department.

Delivering food bags to poor families is the final stage in the process. Volunteers gather at Resala. They start moving prepared food bags out of the Resala building and onto small trucks while counting them. Then the all the volunteers take a bus from in front of the Resala building. The bus takes them to a preselected poor area in Egypt.

Volunteers then unload the food bags from the trucks. Volunteers are then divided into small groups of around five each. Each group has a leader, which is usually an experience volunteer. Each group also has a guide. The guide is usually a resident of the area the volunteers are visiting. Each guide takes a group of volunteers around the poor areas knocking on the doors of preselected poor families. Volunteers hand over a food bag to each of the poor families after making sure their name is in the list they have and is identical to their ID.

Resala volunteers can take with them 200, 500 or more food bags to distribute on poor families each time they go to a poor area.

After distributing the food bags, the volunteers gather and take the bus back to the Resala branch they came from.