QRCS Sends Urgent Relief Aid to Afghanistan

Doha, September 07 (QNA) - Qatar Red Crescent (QRCS) has sent an urgent relief shipment to Afghanistan in coordination with Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), accompanied by a relief team from the Disaster Management. The team will coordinate with the Afghan Red Crescent and humanitarian institutions working in the field, including the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), to assess the affected areas, taking into account the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach areas. The team's mission also includes distributing relief materials. As part of its urgent response launched in late August, QRCS has sent 14 tons of relief aid consisting of food and non-food items, in addition to some preventive medical supplies that will benefit medical staff in the mobile clinics of the Afghan Red Crescent, via Qatar Airways in coordination with Qatar Fund for Development. The assistance is part of the relief aid provided by the State of Qatar to the Afghan people. QFFD Manager of Country Programs Sultan Al Asiri underlined the moral commitment of the State of Qatar to support the Afghan people, and its commitment to diplomatic and humanitarian efforts to provide relief to the Afghan people as a fundamental pillar of its foreign policy, national vision and authentic values of its people. Executive Director of the International Relief and Development Sector of QRCS Faisal Mohammed Al Emadi said that the Disaster Management teams are closely following the developments of the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and are collecting the necessary information on a timely basis in coordination with the Afghan Red Crescent and humanitarian organizations working in the field. In parallel, QRCS announced the launch of a campaign to collect donations in order to provide the necessary and emergency needs imposed by the crisis, especially in the sectors of health care, food and emergency shelter in Afghanistan, based on the situation reports received from the field and from international organizations concerned with the crisis. It is expected that 14.5 million people will need emergency health services, out of a total of 18.4 million people who need humanitarian assistance in 2021. (QNA)