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Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation finishes international charity campaign â€œSave the Children of Somaliâ€

26 August 2011 14:44 (UTC +04:00)

ICYF-DC told APA that the work for receiving money donations collected in previously announced bank accounts will be completed on August 27 at the organizationâ€™s office. The donations made in cash and via the banking transfers will be spent for purchasing food, which will be taken to Somali by the ICYF-DC representatives after the Ramadan Holiday. The office will not receive the donations after August 31. All money transfers to be received after this date will be transferred to the accounts of the international humanitarian organizations, which address the famine problem in Somalia.

Total sum of the donations collected during the campaign, the names of main donors, who extend their hand of help to starving children of Somali and all payments will be publicized on August 30. ICYF-DC thanks Azerbaijani citizens for their support of this campaign, as well as mass media organizations, which covered this action.

In Holy Month of Ramadan, Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation launched an urgent international charity campaign of food aid for victims of severe feminine which affected Somalia. The main goal of the campaign is to coordinate the activity of many individuals, organizations and companies who aim to help those starving in Somalia, with particular emphasis to aid children. The donations will be collected in a centralized and transparent manner, the food packages will be delivered in person in cooperation with the trusted humanitarian Wakufs in Mogadishu and under supervision of ICYF-DC stuff in place.

Hundreds of people have come to the ICYF-DC office since the campaign started to join the campaign and make donations in cash, as well as via domestic and foreign banking transfers. Due to large number of donors and that some of them had no opportunity to come to the office, the organization established volunteer groups for work with the supporters of aid campaign.

Several public organizations collected the donations voluntarily and then transferred this money to the campaignâ€™s bank account in cash or via transfers.

Within the framework of the campaign â€œSave the Children of Somaliâ€, ICYF-DC organized charity Iftar dinners inviting the ambassadors of the countries-members of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation, members of the Azerbaijan National Committee of the Islamic Conference Young Businessmen Network and other citizens, who expressed willingness to support the charity campaign. The Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation thanks all citizens and organizations, who participated in this action, and invites those, who wish to make donations, to finish this work until August 27.