Category Archives: Worldwide

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 […]

Naser Haghamed accepts the Leadership Award for Social Sector & Philanthropy on behalf of the Islamic Relief family. Naser said: “I am honoured and delighted to receive this award on behalf of Islamic Relief. However, I would like to dedicate this to the children of Syria.” Global Good Governance Awards, popularly known as ‘3G Awards,’ […]

At the World Humanitarian Summit on May 23-24 we have a team of delegates speaking out about the issues that matter to the people we work with across the world. Using the summit’s five “core responsibilities”, we’ve set out what we want to see change and why. These are the commitments we are making to […]