Source & Credit: The Telegraph & Argus
By Kathie Griffiths | August 3, 2010
Bradford organisations are rallying round to send aid to flood-stricken Pakistan.
The city’s Human Relief Foundation has started its own aid appeal while the Council for Mosques is holding an emergency meeting today to decide a plan of action.
Bradford’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Association is also supporting aid efforts through its Humanity First Agency sending out teams of doctors with relief supplies. Up to 1.5 million people have been affected by Pakistan’s worst floods in 80 years.
Ishtiaq Ahmed, of Bradford Council For Mosques said: “As a Council we are monitoring the situation out there, it is unfolding every day and we will do as much to help as we can.
“We have Ramadan in about ten days which will give us an opportunity to raise a substantial amount of money for aid.”
Dr Nabeel Al-Ramadhani, a director of the Human Relief Foundation (HRF), said: “Our emergency team has carried out the relevant needs assessment with the major requirements being food, tents and hygiene-kits.’’ The organisation is sending a representative over from the UK to join its team already working in the area on long-standing projects.
“At present there are more than 1,000 dead with a million displaced. This is a major catastrophe so I appeal to the local and national community to please come forward and donate generously.”
Aid workers are having difficulties accessing flood-hit zones because bridges and roads have been destroyed or washed away by monsoon rains.
Mohammed Iqbal, of The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association, said: “We are usually one of the first groups to be at the scene of disasters when tragedy strikes. There will be people from our community with loved ones who have suffered and our thoughts are with them.”
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