Category Archives: Worldwide

Three consecutive years of droughts and flooding have left half of the population of Malawi in Southern Africa needing food aid. Balaka, in the southern region of the country, is one of the worst-affected districts. Thousands of farmers did not harvest enough food to feed their families this year; either because of the lack of […]

Outstanding climate change project is recognised by The Charity Awards A three-year £3 million programme supporting more than 100,000 people to protect themselves against disasters and climate change has made the shortlist at The Charity Awards 2017. The programme reached out to remotely located people in one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate […]

Our latest annual report from Syria shows that last year alone Islamic Relief supported more than 3 million people across Syria and neighbouring countries Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. With the conflict now in its seventh year, more than half of the Syrian population have fled their homes with 13.5 million people in desperate need of […]

Suffering the effects of two-and-a-half decades of armed conflict, Somalia is also affected by the El Niño phenomenon, leaving communities vulnerable to severe drought and flash flooding. Threat of famine The humanitarian situation is critical in Somalia. For many the threat of famine is looming. According to the UN, some 320,000 children under five years […]

Nutrition activities in ETHIOPIA continued this week with 898 children screened and 476 moderate malnourished among them were admitted for assistance. Supplementary food was provided to 265 individuals Livestock feeding, maintenance of water points and water trucking along with provision of water treatment sachets continued during the week. In SOMALIA, 350 food packs and 150 […]

Dotted around Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia, are camps where countless desperate families arrive in search of food and water. It was at one of these camps, where teams from Islamic Relief regularly distribute food packs, that I first met Fatouma. Fatouma, from a village in the Burhakaba region, around 250km from Mogadishu, told […]