History

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.