* The situation in both Gaza and the West Bank remains volatile with rockets continuously being fired from both sides. * The Palestinian Red Crescent has said that it has provided medical assistance to over 1,795 people across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. * Our team in Gaza is continuing to monitor the […]
Category Archives: Worldwide
Two teenage Islamic Relief volunteers offered a helping hand to FareShare’s annual food collection to help those in need this Christmas. Two of our keen volunteers, Hosaam Safdar and Muhit Chowdhury, both aged 19 – supported this year’s FareShare’s food drive at Tesco in Whitechapel, East London, which took place over three days in early […]
Young people across the UK and overseas have raised the record-breaking sum of almost £1.17m for Charity Week – by far the largest total in the Week’s 14-year history. The money raised – £1,169,285.48 so far – will be used by Islamic Relief to provide aid and assistance to vulnerable children around the world. The […]
Islamic Relief is scaling up its support for humanitarian partner organisations working on the ground to provide vital aid to some of the hundreds of thousands of people who have fled the conflict in Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in neighbouring Bangladesh. We are pleased to announce PULSE Bangladesh as our first local partner, approved by […]
Islamic Relief in Kosova has finalised the project ‘Access to Clean Water’, which provides the local population of Kamenice Municipality with access to clean and drinkable water. The water system will provide access to 65 households with around 400 residents, including 120 children under 14 years old. The project also includes the creation and distribution […]
There are now more than 65 million people in the world who have been forced from their homes due to conflict or disaster (UNHCR), many of them struggling to meet their basic needs of food, water, shelter and access to essential services. However, the psychological trauma of their displacement is less visible, and often overlooked. […]
