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UK Muslim Groups Step up East Africa
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Muslim Aid distributes food
supplies to Somalis.
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CAIRO, April 9, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) Muslim aid
organizations in Britain have stepped up assistance to East Africa and
launched urgent donation campaigns as the region has been hit by the worst
drought wave in living memory.
Islamic Relief (IR) is providing emergency assistance in the
Mandera region of Kenya in the north-east, the London-based Muslim aid
group said in a press release on its website Saturday, April 8.
"Emergency water distribution continues in Kabo and
Kamor-Libaan in Lafey division where 2000 people receive 10,000lts of
water daily," it said.
Water distributions to five more villages in the Lafey area
are being organized.
A Supplementary Feeding Program is providing food each week
to almost 600 malnourished children, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and
the elderly in Kamor-Libaan, Damasa, Libehiya and Kabo.
In Ethiopia, the group said up to five water tankers to
Hargelle, Charrati and Filtu towns, reaching some 30,000
people.
In partnership with UNICEF, Islamic Relief will also be
setting up two water treatment stations to purify river water.
The group has further launched an online
donation
campaign.
The United Nations appealed Friday, April 7, for hundreds of
millions of dollars in urgent aid to rescue million of lives threatened in
draught-hit East Africa.
Since late 2005, east Africans have been facing hunger and
losing livestock, due to a drought one aid agency, Oxfam, said will take
15 years to recover from.
The drought has hit Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia hardest, but
also Djibouti, Eritrea, Burundi, Uganda and Tanzania.
Food Distribution
London-based Muslim Aid is now providing more than £124,000
to those suffering from famine in Somalia and Kenya.
"Muslim Aid is planning early food distribution for
communities to the west, near the Bakool border, if the hoped-for rains
fail to materialize," Ahmed Mohammad, country director of Muslim Aid
Somalia said in a press release.
In the second phase, Muslim Aid plans to distribute food,
water, medicine and nutrition biscuits to 35,000 people in the southern
Somalia regions of Gedo and Bay, where 1.7 million people are in need of
food aid.
In all, 117 tonnes of food will be distributed to 7,500
families, with each family receiving about 16 kilograms of food. The group
has accepts online
donations.
Mohammad warned that cattle and goats have been most
affected.
"Predictions indicate that the situation is likely to worsen
unless April rains bring some hope."
Hundreds of thousands of livestock and wildlife have perished
from the drought further damaging prospects for many.
Muslim Aid is also working with the Kakamenga Muslim Teachers
Welfare group and the Mandera Islamic Centre to bring emergency food,
water and medical relief to Wajir and Mandera in north-east
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