Global Charity Campaign İn Turkey

IHH aid workers will go to Africa which is hit by war, occupation, natural disaster and poverty. Aid will be delivered to flood-hit Pakistan and earthquake-hit Haiti. Animals will be slaughtered at refugee camps, orphans will be given clothes. Awareness of helping, sharing and solidarity will be raised.Global charity campaign

Aid teams of the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation will visit 125 countries and regions in the Middle East, Asia, the Balkans and Africa as well as Latin American countries of Haiti, Costa Rica, Cuba, Surinam, Peru, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. Far countries such as Indonesia and many others will also be extended aid.

Aid volunteers will slaughter animals delegated to the IHH in the regions they visit and distribute meat to impoverished Muslims.

Pattani, Mindanao, Myanmar and Arakan where Muslims are in minority and face difficulties will also be visited.

There are no direct flights from Turkey to Haiti, an island country in the Caribbean Sea. Aid workers will have to make a transfer flight. They will slaughter animals in Haiti and distribute meat to earthquake survivors as well as cash and in-kind donations.

Most of donors request aid agencies to slaughter their animals in Pakistan. The IHH will prioritize the flood-hit country in this year’s Qurban campaign.

Thirty-nine countries in Africa are included in the campaign. Animals will be slaughtered in hundreds of locations and their meat will be distributed to needy Africans. This year, IHH will hold Qurban campaign in African country of Ivory Coast for the first time.

Yavuz Dede, IHH executive in charge of the Qurban organization, recalled Qurban is an obligatory ritual in Islam. “Most of families that donate to us do it to perform the Qurban ritual. Some of them donate extra animals to be taken to Muslims in various countries. We have been slaughtering Qurban sacrifices through delegation and distributing their meat to needy people for 19 years. We have gained trust of charitable people by acting as an intermediary between donors and beneficiaries since 1993. This is very important to us,” he said.

Dede indicated the donation amount per Qurban is 300 Turkish liras for this year.