OIC begins projects in Chad

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Humanitarian Alliance mission has launched emergency projects for the benefit of refugees in the Republic of Chad who fled the conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR).
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) pledged to provide a million dollars in special aid for the implementation of several educational and service projects as well as shelter tents for refugees and displaced people in CAR, Chad and Cameroon.
There are more than 100,000 refugees in Chad since the outbreak of the crisis in CAR in December 2013. The refugees have been sheltered by various international humanitarian organizations in around 12 camps set up in N’Djamena, Sarh, Sido, Doba, Baibokoum, and Gore.
The OIC and the Islamic Solidarity Fund have contributed to setting up hundreds of tents, several water wells and electricity generators, in addition to providing large quantities of food and medicine.
The mission includes members from the OIC, the Islamic Development Bank, the Islamic Solidarity Fund, the International Islamic Relief Organization in Saudi Arabia, the Turkish Red Cross, the Turkish IHH Organization, Turkey’s Doctors around the World, Qatar’s Charity Foundation, Britain’s Islamic Relief, and Britain’s Islamic Aid.
Dr. Awad Salem Al-Osaimea, director of the department of special aid in the Islamic Development Bank, said the bank will establish integrated schools to accommodate 750 male and female refugee students in camps in the south of Chad, in addition to providing educational material and equipment for the schools. He added that the project also includes three water wells serving 12,000 people, 650 fully equipped shelter tents and 91 toilets.
The mission, which left to Chad on Wednesday, will remain in Cameroon and then the Central African Republic for one week. Ambassador Fouad Al-Maznaie, head of the mission, said that the mission aims to consult with officials in the countries concerned by the crisis to discuss ways to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to the affected refugees and displaced people. He also indicated that the mission aims to obtain preliminary information from field visits to the camps for displaced people in CAR and the refugee camps in Cameroon and Chad.