Category Archives: Worldwide

Islamic Relief supporters are urged to petition governments for refugee rights. To mark World Refugee Day, on June 20, Islamic Relief is throwing its weight behind the#WithRefugees petition. The number of refugees globally now exceeds 20 million – the highest figure for more than two decades. Increasing political instability and violent conflict are pushing thousands […]

Each year, Islamic Relief Mali begins its distribution programme 10 days before the start of Ramadan. Focusing on the most vulnerable people in communities, this year the team helped those in low income households. 60-year-old Aminata and her family from Falan are receiving one of the 7,700 food packs delivered in Mali. As an agricultural […]

Day of the African Child focuses on children affected by conflict and crisis Forty years after the Soweto Uprising, many children across Africa are still struggling to find their voice. Each year the Day of the African Child remembers June 16, 1976, when 10,000 black school children protested in Soweto against the poor quality of […]

Islamic Relief pilots waste separation scheme to encourage recycling across Grozny. Recycling is virtually non-existent in Chechnya, but Islamic Relief has been running a pilot scheme to encourage people to separate their waste. While countries like Austria and Germany are recycling 60% of their rubbish, and the UK and USA recycle around 40%, in Russia […]

Emergency food distributions are planned where floods have cut off people in remote villages. Islamic Relief is one of the few INGOs that has been able to access the most hard-to-reach areas on the outskirts of flooded Beledweyne town on the Ethiopian border (200 miles north of Mogadishu), with our field staff using a tractor […]