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Natural disasters challenge Muslim Aid

1999 – 2000

  • Relief goods for millions in Kosovo, Turkey and Sierra Leonea are provided.
  •  Muslim Aid also provided relief in the aftermath of humanitarian disasters in Chechnya, the Horn of Africa and Afghanistan.
  •  Muslim Aid manned the first-ever charter flight arrange by a Muslim charity to carry 29 tonnes of aid worth £250,000 to Kosovo.

2001

2001 saw many natural disasters:

  • Earthquake in Gujarat, India in which an estimated 100,000 people died.
  • Devastating flash floods in Pakistan
  • Cyclone in Madagascar
  • Flooding in Cambodia and Bangladesh.


In addition to these natural disasters, there was ongoing famine and war in Afghanistan which made millions of people homeless, a civil war in Macedonia and unrest on the Indonesian Island of Ambon.

In response to these disasters, Muslim Aid allocated £1,422,332 worth of emergency relief to alleviate suffering and help most vulnerable communities.

2002 – 2003

  •  Muslim Aid, UNICEF and WHO provided emergency medicine, food and medical personnel to treat victims the cholera outbreak in Kismayo, Somalia.
  • The vice-president of Gambia inaugurated the Muslim Aid funded school for the blind which provides learning facilities free of charge.
  • In Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, the British High Commissioner Richard Clarke inaugurated the Muslim Aid funded laboratory, library and computer rooms.
  •  Muslim Aid set up an office in Iraq and carried out humanitarian need assessments in Baghdad and Karbala as well as providing emergency relief and orphan care.