{"id":6637,"date":"2014-05-02T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/05\/02\/islamic-relief-celebrates-30-years\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:51:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:51:49","slug":"islamic-relief-celebrates-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/02\/islamic-relief-celebrates-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Relief Celebrates 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>MP Justine Greening Congratulated the Charity<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" width=\"570\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/islamic-relief-30-years-570x225.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Charity, Islamic Relief has celebrated 30 years of being a registered charity with a visit from Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening. Meeting staff at the Birmingham office\u2019s the MP discussed ongoing developments in the Syria and Afghanistan region where efforts are ongoing with aid projects. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The year after it was founded, Islamic Relief set up its first field office in Khartoum,\u00a0Sudan, ready to help those affected by the drought not just survive, but rebuild their lives.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Since then, they have opened over 100 offices in 40 countries worldwide \u2013 from Afghanistan\u00a0to\u00a0Albania,\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0to\u00a0Palestine,\u00a0Somalia\u00a0to\u00a0Sudan. As well as disaster relief, they carry out sustainable development work to provide\u00a0water,\u00a0food, shelter, healthcare,\u00a0education\u00a0in the long-term. They also work to support\u00a0orphans and children, help people get jobs and build\u00a0livelihoods\u00a0to support their families, and protect vulnerable communities from future disasters, preventing the loss of lives and property. In 2005 it became the first Muslim charity to join the UK\u2019s Disaster Emergencies Committee. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A spokesman for the charity said: \u201cIslamic Relief\u2019s major single aid and development programme is in Pakistan and it has the largest aid programme in Palestine apart from those of UN agencies.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIts biggest emergency relief operation is in Syria, where it is responding to the worst humanitarian crisis for a generation. It has provided food, shelter, medical aid and other assistance to over two million Syrians, both deep inside the country and in neighbouring Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey. Islamic Relief works in the most difficult places around the world.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP Justine Greening Congratulated the Charity &#13; Charity, Islamic Relief has celebrated 30 years of being a registered charity with a visit from Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening. Meeting staff at the Birmingham office\u2019s the MP discussed ongoing developments in the Syria and Afghanistan region where efforts are ongoing with aid projects. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}