İHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation

Orphans given a hand during Solidarity Days

We spent every moment of Orphan Solidarity Days between 16-31 March with an activity or a program.

MiddleEast, Turkey 18.05.2012

IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, which is supporting 24,100 orphan children from 36 countries as of March 2012 with regular assistance, organized Orphan Solidarity Days between 16-31 March. Groups composed of IHH staff members, volunteers, donors, health workers, and press members visited the regions where our foundation operates within the scope of the Orphan Solidarity Days, which aims to draw attention of the Turkish and world public to problems and needs of 165 million orphans around the world. The teams met with orphans in Turkey as well as Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon in the Middle East; Somalia, Sierra Leone, Chad, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Malawi, Tanzania, Burkina Faso in Africa; Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Pattani, Pakistan in Asia; Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania in the Balkans; Chechnya in the Caucasia. Orphan care projects in Yemen, Ghana, Sudan, Djibouti, Aceh, Philippines/Mindanao, Jammu Kashmir, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Ecuador were carried out through our local partner organizations.

A number of organizations were carried out in the visited regions depending on local needs such as clothing and stationery aid, health screening, orphan wedding ceremony, circumcision ceremony, blanket-mattress distribution, food aid, paying for expenses of orphanages, and assistance to families of orphans (distribution of sewing machine, sesame grinding machine, milking cows, etc.). The projects were prepared in accordance with needs of local orphans. In addition, orphan care activities of local partner organizations were inspected closely and they were advised on future projects. Based on assessments and analyses, first steps for possible projects in the coming years were taken.

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	2012 ORPHAN SOLIDARITY DAYS 16-31 MARCH 2012
	COUNTRY/REGION	PROJECTS MATERIALIZED	NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES
SOUTH ASIA	ACEH	Paying for educational expenses of 22 girl university students living at Aceh Istanbul Orphanage	22
	ACEH	Purchasing school bus for Aceh Istanbul Orphanage	86
	BANGLADESH	Clothing and stationery aid	150
		Providing sewing machines to 20 families, goats to 20 families and milking cows to 10 families as part of a project to help development of families of orphans	50 families
		Paying customary dowries of orphan girls preparing to get married as is the tradition in the region	15
		Picnic organization in three different areas	2000
	JAMMU KASHMIR	Meeting one-year expenses of a vocational training center set up for orphan and needy girls	50
	JAMMU KASHMIR	Winter clothing aid	50
	MINDANAO	Organizing Quran recitation, painting, hadith and knowledge competitions among children staying at different orphanages	200
	PATTANI	Trip and picnic organization	100
		Organizing football, basketball, and similar activities for orphan children and providing sport clothing to them	100
		Clothing aid	100
	SRI LANKA	Health screening	300
		Picnic organization	300
		Quran recitation contest	300
		Sporting competitions	300
CENTRAL ASIA	AFGHANISTAN	Clothing and stationery aid	957
		Health screening	300
		Trip and picnic organization	470
	KAZAKHSTAN	Providing suit, shoes, shirt and socks	50
		Stationery aid	100
		Two-ton fuel supply to orphan families	50 families
		Four-day trip to historical and cultural sites	50
		Food pack distribution	50
	KYRGYZSTAN	Providing clothing aid to orphan children living in two orphanages in Çüy area and aid in-kind to the orphanages	100
	TAJIKISTAN	Trips to amusement park and zoo, lunch, surprise presents to orphans, clothing and food aid	30
BALKANS	ALBANIA	Entertainment program for and presents to 1005 orphan children	1005
	BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA	City tour in Sarajevo, trip to zoo, lunch organization, and taking orphans to the cinema	50
	BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA	€50-worth gift cards to orphans for clothes shopping	80
	KOSOVO	Banquet for orphan children and their families	250
	MACEDONIA	One-year long scholarship to orphans attending secondary school and high-school	160
	MACEDONIA	Purchasing a house for the family of an orphan	1 families
AFRICA	BURKINA FASO	Trip to museum of history, zoo and other entertainment and cultural sites in the capital Ouagadougou for 80 orphans	80
	BURKINA FASO	Each family was given a sheep or goat as part of project to help development of families of orphans	80 families
	DJIBOUTI	Trip to amusement park and zoo, organizing theatre and various cultural activities, lunch program	217
	CHAD	Stationery aid	200
		Distribution of mosquito nets to help prevention of malaria that is common in the region	200
		Food pack distribution to families of orphans	200 families
		Picnic organization	150
	GHANA	Health screening	100
		Picnic organization	100
		Clothing, food and stationery aid to orphans	100
	ETHIOPIA	Organizing various sporting and cultural activities such as football, volleyball among orphan children and rewarding winners	732
	MALAWI	Providing health screening and mosquito nets to 80 children, 50 of the orphans, who are living at IHH Orphanage in Kanyenda	80
	MALAWI	Furnishing interior of Kanyenda Orphanage	40
	MAURITANIA	Organizing sporting contests, cultural activities and picnic for orphans and their families	80
		Opening butcher shops as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	2 families
		Opening tailor workshops as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	2 families
		Opening mini stores as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	2 families
		Opening fabric dyeing workshops as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	2 families
		Opening mini restaurants as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	2 families
	RWANDA	Clothing aid and laptop computer distribution (10 people)	40
	SIERRA LEONE	Health screening against malaria, smallpox, chickenpox, measles, asthma, tuberculosis, pneumonia, yellow fever and so on	300
		Providing cattle to families for livestock breeding as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	5 families
		Providing micro financing to families as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	15 families
	SOMALIA	Opening stationery shop as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	3 families
		Opening women clothes store as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	5 families
		Opening perfume shop as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	5 families
		Purchasing grain milling machines as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	5 families
		Purchasing sesame grinding machines as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	5 families
		Opening electronics shop as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	2 families
		Opening grocery store as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	10 families
		Opening mini stores as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	5 families
	SUDAN	Food aid to families or orphans and food pack to orphans	500
	TANZANIA-ZANZIBAR	Trips to historical sites, zoo and coast in Zanzibar and lunch program	300
		Constructing and furnishing the interior of five additional classrooms for students who registered this year at IHH-built Martyr Faruk Aktaş School	200
		Providing capital to a family so that they can start poultry breeding as part of projects to help development of families of orphans	1 family
		Providing transport animal and vehicle to a family	1 family
MIDDLE EAST	PALESTINE	Organizing a day event to raise morale of orphan children	300
	IRAQ	Distributing clothes and toys to orphan children in Mosul	50
		Trip to amusement park, handicraft competition and banquet program	650
		Organizing traditional dishes contest for families of orphans and rewarding the winners	50
		Distributing blankets, toys and food packs to orphan children	30
	LEBANON	Renovating houses of orphans’ families	10 families
		Trip organization	50
		Distributing books to 300 orphan children in refugee camps and presents to 20 orphans winning a knowledge contest	320
	YEMEN	Paying for treatment of 13 orphan children suffering from pulmonary infection, tonsillitis, rheumatism, and heart condition	13
		Providing educational support	21
		Providing aid in-kind to meet various needs of orphans’ families such as household goods, furniture	23 families
CAUCASIA	AZERBAIJAN	Clothing and stationery aid, mass banquet organization	325
LATIN AMERICA	ECUADOR	Organizing a trip to el-Boliche National Park and Quito amusement park for orphans and their mothers	26 individuals (12 of them orphans)