AT LEAST 5,000 families, mostly fire victims, were identified as the beneficiaries of the Filipino-Turkish Tolerance School’s celebration on Tuesday, August 21, of the “Feast of Sacrifice (Eid’l Adha).”

FTTS school director Ismail Kullap said they slaughtered 87 cattle. They will distribute the beef to the less fortunate, mostly fire victims from Kasanyangan and Labuan villages in Zamboanga City as well as in Jolo, Sulu and Basilan provinces.

“More or less, there are 5,000 packages (of beef) will be distributed this year. More than 70 percent of it will go to the less fortunate,” Kullap said.

Kullap said they will also share beef “with our friends, staff, our teachers and students.”

The “Feast of the Sacrifice” (Eid’l Adha) is the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year, the other being Eid al-Fitr.

Kullap said the cattle that were slaughtered this year were purchased with the assistance of Turkish businessmen based in Germany.

Last year, the sponsors were the Turkish businessmen based in Australia.