A man receiving food basket at a distribution centre set up by RAF in Ethiopia.
Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) has provided humanitarian aid to 6,000 drought-affected people in Ethiopia.
The aid includes distribution of food baskets in several remote villages across the country as part of the Horn of Africa relief campaign.
The project was implemented in cooperation with the Irshad Association for Cooperation and Development, the RAF’s local partner in Ethiopia.
The association conducted a field survey in the most needy areas to register the beneficiary families and assess their needs before beginning the distribution process. Priority was given to families with no breadwinners, orphans, and people with disabilities, the elderly, the sick and those unable to earn enough for daily life.
About 1,100 food baskets were distributed, which contained enough food like rice, flour, pasta and edible oil for a family comprising five to six members for a month, at least.
The aid was provided within RAF's humanitarian efforts to help and rescue Ethiopians in drought-affected areas, whose number exceeds six million. It also came in response to the humanitarian appeal made by the Ethiopian government to humanitarian institutions to rescue those affected by famine.
According to the report of International Food Programme, more than 10 million people need urgent humanitarian aid. And the need has increased three times since 2015 due to drought that destroyed crops and killed animals.
RAF came forward with a plan to provide food baskets to the drought-affected people who were unable to buy foods for them.
In mid-March, RAF launched a relief campaign for the Horn of Africa, aimed at raising QR5m in funds for the relief of those affected by drought that hit several African countries, threatening famine and allocated QR2m to provide urgent help to those affected by drought.
RAF has also dispatched urgent aid for drought-hit people to several areas in Somalia. The campaign launched under “Kun Sababan Lilhayat” (be a cause of life) focused on foods, health and drinking water.
A group of people from the ambassadors of mercy unit of RAF visited to the tents for sheltering displaced people in Mogadishu to supervise the implementation of the project –food supply and medical caravan. They also inaugurated several water projects to provide drinking water to thousands drought-hit people.
