DDHK News, Jakarta - Since departing on 19 March, the Indonesia Aid Humanitarian Team Dompet Dhuafa for Central Africa and Syria finally arrived back in their homeland, Monday (31/3).
More than a week the DD team distributed aid directly to the victims in the Kenzu and Garoua Boulai refugee camps, on the eastern border of Cameroon, Central Africa and Syria.
In collaboration with local humanitarian NGOs, including the AHAS Association Humanitaire Pour le Development du Cameroon, the DD team distributed logistical assistance to the Indonesian people in the form of food, mineral water, and medicines. The aid was distributed to more than 27.000 heads of refugee families.
Apart from distributing aid, the team also surveyed several points in the area to help provide clean water in Kenzu. The plan, Dompet Dhuafa will build clean water installations because water is very scarce in the camp.
In Syria, the Indonesia Aid Team Dompet Dhuafa has also distributed aid. The team entered Syria through the Kilis border to carry out the mandate of assistance from the Indonesian people directly to the refugees.
Not only in the form of food, but non-food, medical assistance as well as assessment (observation) for long-term programs. The team coordinated with Turkish international NGOs, IHH and Mercy Corps to remote areas of Syria.
On Friday (28/3), the team conducted a health service action for Syrian orphans whose parents had died due to the humanitarian crisis. Health check services and medical assistance are carried out at an orphanage called the Kahateny Syrian Orphan Children Aid Association which is located in the City of Reyhanli near the border between Turkey and Syria.
The children who were in the orphanage were examined directly by the medical team Dompet Dhuafa dr. Farhan handles various kinds of complaints, such as gastrointestinal tract infections, itching, fever, headaches to ISPA. Medicines that have been prepared were also distributed.
"Thank you Dompet Dhuafa. Thank you Indonesian people who care about the Syrian people, "said a doctor from Syria named dr. Khalil Ibrahim from Physician Across Continents appreciated the arrival of the humanitarian team Dompet Dhuafa.
Seeing firsthand the wave of increasing numbers of victims and refugees that is getting bigger every day in the Kenzu and Garoua Boulai refugee camps, Dompet Dhuafa called on world humanitarian agencies to immediately raise international concern.
As part of the global community, Indonesia needs to lend a helping hand to save the human civilization that is now in danger of being lost.
The humanitarian crisis that occurred in Central Africa has occurred since 2013 and has spread to the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Muslims who are minorities in Central Africa. This conflict is suspected to be the cause of the crisis in human civilization in the fifth poorest country in the world, which is currently only 5 based on the Human Development Index.
According to a release issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), more than half of Central Africa's population is now in need of humanitarian assistance. It is estimated that 2,5 million people — more than half of the country's 4,6 million population — need humanitarian assistance.
More than 701.500 people have been displaced due to increasing violence in central Central Africa. It is estimated that as many as 276.500 people are spread across 62 points in the capital city, Bangui. The United Nations (UN) agency that deals with refugees, UNHCR, reported that as many as 290.801 Central Africans fled to neighboring countries such as Cameroon, Chad, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The humanitarian tragedy in Syria, based on data from UNHCR as of February 13, 2014, recorded that out of around 700.000 Syrians living in Turkey, 217.754 refugees are in refugee camps and as many as 384.985 are registered outside refugee camps. The rest are refugees who have not been registered. (Dompetdhuafa.org). *
