Qatar Charity, QRCS provide relief aid to Ethiopian refugees in Sudan

QATAR Charity (QC) and the Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) have begun providing emergency humanitarian aid to Ethiopian refugees who have fled the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region to eastern Sudan. The emergency response Project focuses on 12,000 Ethiopian refugees, including shelter areas, nonfood items, water, sanitation, food, primary health services and healthy nutrition.

The urgent relief aid will be implemented through the field teams of Qatar Charity and QRCS’s offices in Khartoum, in coordination with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC).

The aid aims to provide tents and offer healthcare services b y operating fixed and mobile clinics, in addition to providing healthy diet and nutritional supplements to children.

In addition, daily meals will be provided by the establishment of a ready-to-eat kitchen, as well as by the delivery of non-food items and personal hygiene kits to refugees.

The emergency response of Qatar Charity and QRCS is part of their humanitarian duty to help reduce the suffering of the Ethiopian refugees as a result of the recent influx of refugees due to the continuing crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, where thousands of people have been displaced and have recently fled to eastern Sudan. Women and children are half of those crossed in the Sudanese territories.

Relief assistance from both organisations is being provided in support of the humanitarian efforts of the Sudanese Government and NGOs working in the country to ease the suffering of refugees, particularly in the light of the coronavirus pandemic and the challenging economic conditions in Sudan that have recently gone through an unprecedented flood in a century.