Muslim Hands Emergency Aid in Falluja, Iraq

20 April, 2004

After the recent violence in Iraq and despite difficulties, Muslim Hands has deployed one ambulance unit (stationed at Public Clinic No. 1) and sent medical equipment and medication into the besieged city of Fallluja. Muslim Hands has launched an appeal for the victims of the recent violence and allocated a further $150,000 of funds.

More than 5000 families have fled Falluja. Muslim Hands is working to provide food and clothing for these internally displaced families, many of whom are now in Garma (a small town outside Falluja) and in Baghdad.

Muslim Hands has already spent over $700,000 helping sufferers in Iraq since the beginning of the war in February 2003 in the form of emergency aid and development work. In May 2003, immediately after the official end of the war, Muslim Hands established an office in Baghdad and began short-term emergency project and long-term rehabilitation work in Baghdad, Mosul and Falluja.

Your support is needed to restore peace and rebuild safe and just society in Iraq.

Muslim Hands is a signatory to the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGO's in Disaster Relief.