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Qatar Charity (QC) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, launched the largest humanitarian relief initiative entitled ‘For Humanity (4H)' to provide emergency assistance to vulnerable refugees across the globe.
The 4H campaign aims to reach out to more than 300,000 refugees and displaced persons in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Bangladesh (Rohingya Refugee), provide emergency assistance to them, and ensure they are safe, healthy and well fed.
As part of the initiative, an urgent campaign will be launched live on Friday evening, May 24, through Al Rayyan TV. It will start at 10 pm and continue until midnight, to raise funds to help refugees in these countries. Qatar Charity urges philanthropists in Qatar to interact with the ‘4H' campaign and donate to help thousands of the displaced, refugees, the poor and the needy in Yemen, Iraq, Bangladesh (Rohingya Refugee), Somalia and Syria.
An episode of the Taraweeh, a Qatar Charity radio programme at the Al Quran Al Kareem Radio, will be allocated for this purpose.
Through a close partnership with UNHCR for many years, Qatar Charity works on relief campaigns to help refugees on different levels and through several programs, which include education, healthcare, and housing. The ‘4H' initiative seeks to provide a leading model for global emergency support, consultation and joint action to enhance humanitarian response and field cooperation between the two parties.
The initiative will contribute to providing protection, shelter and emergency humanitarian assistance to Yemenis living in difficult conditions and struggling to survive, as more than 18 million of them currently need humanitarian assistance and over two million people live in difficult conditions away from their homes and they are deprived of basic needs.
The ‘4H' initiative also seeks to help the Iraqi people and alleviate the suffering of 6.7 million Iraqis who are facing many humanitarian crises due to displacement as well as the lack of basic needs. A large number of Iraqi families still live with minimum spending. More than 3.3 million children are severely deprived of education, and suffer malnutrition, poor living conditions and less health spending. What makes the situation further worse is that 60 percent of these people suffer from the burden of debt and that a large number of young people aged 18 - 25 years suffer unemployment.
The ‘4H' initiative also seeks to support the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, as they suffer systematic discrimination in Myanmar, which caused the displacement of more than half a million refugees fleeing violence in their country. The violence has greatly harmed women, girls, boys and men and forced them to move to Bangladesh.
The ‘4H' campaign aims at supporting Somali refugees at the Dadaab camp in Kenya and provide food, education, healthcare, housing, clean water and sanitation to 100,000 refugees. The ‘4H' initiative also seeks to reintegrate Somali refugees by building public infrastructure helpful to rehabilitation in order to promote peaceful coexistence and self-reliance and give access to basic services in areas of return, so that Somali returnees, displaced persons and receiving communities can achieve the stability.
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