Category Archives: Worldwide

38 attacks on schools took place in Syria in the first half of 2016 alone. When it comes to conflict, children are always amongst the most vulnerable. As a conflict evolves, an escalation in violence and extreme poverty become prevalent. Right now, approximately 7 million Syrian children are living in poverty. Due to the destruction […]

Intense internal conflict in Iraq has left over a million people from east and west Mosul displaced, and as a result more than 800,000 have been left to survive in internally displaced camps, according to the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Men, women and children – travelling on their own or with their families […]

A cholera outbreak was reported in Yemen on 27th April 2017. Since then, the number of Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) or suspected cholera cases has increased to over 200,000, including 1,500 deaths. The infection rate is rising rapidly at a rate of 5000 per day. The outbreak has affected 21 out of Yemen’s 22 governorates: […]

The humanitarian situation in the East Africa is worsening. There are multiple factors including early cessation and under performance of the seasonal rains in large parts of the region and the continued conflict in South Sudan, outbreak of cholera/ Acute Watery Diarrhoea in Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan and measles affecting children under five years olds. [...]

How we are responding to the global refugee crisis Since Islamic Relief first formed more than 30 years ago we have been on the frontline of responding to the needs of forced migrants around the world. Today the world has reached crisis point as the number of refugees exceeds 20 million – the highest figure for […]

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 […]