Category Archives: Worldwide

From Mali to Gaza, and Afghanistan to India, children are taking centre stage. As well as throwing celebrations this weekend Islamic Relief offices around the world are using Universal Children’s Day (on November 20) to highlight children’s rights. In Gaza, hundreds of children have taken part in events, creating handprints carrying messages about their need [...]

A healthcare programme has provided under-10s with life-changing cleft palate surgery. The project in Jordan is part of the £945,000 (€1.1 million) emergency healthcare programme reaching out to Jordanians and Syrian refugees. Working with Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) Islamic Relief has provided specialist surgical interventions for 13 children, from three months to 10 years [...]

More than 6 million people in Malawi need humanitarian aid following the effects of El Nino. Reduced rainfall and above average temperatures in Malawi have left 40% of the country hungry. Female subsistence farmers are most vulnerable as they don’t always have access to land or equipment. Meliya Beka is one of 9,080 people in [...]

Humanitarians warn the impact of fighting in Mosul could be devastating. Islamic Relief’s team on the ground, leading a £500,000 response plan, says civilians who manage to escape the city may be subjected to screening and possible detention or onward travel to camps for displaced people. Those staying in the city under siege are likely [...]

Islamic Relief joins forces with UN Women, the global champion for gender equality, to strengthen joint work on empowering women in the Muslim world. UN Women executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and the chief executive officer of Islamic Relief Worldwide, Naser Haghamed, officially launched a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the United Arab Emirates on 19 [...]

Intensive airstrikes in Aleppo leave 184 dead Two days of intensive airstrikes in Aleppo has left 184 people dead in the last 48 hours and prompted a desperate plea from one of Islamic Relief Syria’s key aid workers on the ground to pause hostilities and allow aid workers to protect civilians. “It’s not even possible […]