Vending machines in supermarkets with touchscreens allowed people to select loaves for sandwiches, pita bread or flat Indian chapatis. Read more at straitstimes.com.
DUBAI - With the cost of living surging, free hot bread distribution for the poor has been introduced in Dubai, a rich Gulf emirate where millionaires rub shoulders with hard-working migrants.
Ten vending machines were installed last week in supermarkets, with a computer touch screen allowing people to select different types: loaves for sandwiches, pita bread or flat Indian-style chapatis."A friend told me there was free bread, so I came," said Bigandar, a young man from Nepal who works at a car wash, not wanting to give his full name.He headed for Dubai, a city that has earned a reputation for conspicuous consumption and excess.
"The idea is to go to disadvantaged families and workers before they come to us," said the foundation's director, Zeinab Joumaa al-Tamimi.The oil-rich UAE has a population of nearly 10 million people, 90 per cent of them foreigners, many labourers from Asia and Africa.
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