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Islamic Relief agency helps schoolchildren, repairs homes
By Mohannad Sharawi
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 25 - 12 - 2009

The International Islamic Relief Organization of Saudi Arabia (IIROSA) has launched a number of initiatives to help flood victims, including the supply of school bags to children and the repair of homes.
The IIROSA has asked Jeddah education officials, Abdullah Bin Ahmed Al Thaqafi and Abdul Kareem Bin Hamad Al-Huquail, for the names and schools of those students affected by the floods. The needy students will be provided with school bags by the IIROSA relief teams.
The IIROSA has also started to implement a plan to repair 500 houses damaged by the floods. Relief teams have already started work and are hoping to speed up the process so that people can return to their homes.
In addition, the IIROSA are continuing efforts in the flood-hit districts to ensure that food and other material reached 3,000 families.
In coordination with the Civil Defense authority, the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Jeddah People's Solidarity Committee, the IIROSA is now working in areas including Quwaizah, Faraj Assaid, Al-Masaid, Umm Assalam and Kilo 14.
The IIROSA relief teams have been visiting furnished apartments at Al-Rihab, Musharafa, Al-Aziziyah, Al-Rawdha, Al-Samir, Al-Safa, Al-Jamaa, Al-Thaqr, Al-Nasim, Al-Faiha and Bani Malek to check out the living conditions of displaced families. The IIROSA has also distributed new clothes and shoes to more than 700 men and women.
In has been learnt that several victims of the Jeddah floods arrived at the four field clinics set up by the IIROSA at Ghulail and Petromin. A breathing machine was provided for a child suffering from asthma and medicine given to two women suffering from heart disease. Medicine was also handed out to a number of other people.
IIROSA Secretary-General, Dr. Adnan Khalil Basha, announced recently that the IIROSA has set aside SR10 million for the repair of damaged houses. Basha has said this amount could be increased, depending on the situation.


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