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<strong>FIMA</strong> GLOBAL RELIEF<br />

Bangladesh Floods:<br />

Cyclone CIDER<br />

2007:<br />

On November 15,2007, Cyclone CIDER, a<br />

category five tropical cyclone, struck Bangladesh<br />

mainland, causing extensive flooding and<br />

destruction 16 .<br />

As per Red Crescent, 10,000 people lost their<br />

lives, and more than three million lost their homes<br />

and livestock. Crops were destroyed and trees<br />

were uprooted.<br />

The most affected districts were Morolgonj and<br />

Sharankhola. A massive disaster situation emerged<br />

with urgent humanitarian needs for food items,<br />

drinking water, shelters, medical teams and<br />

supplies.<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>. Iqbal Khan, PIMA relief team in Bangladesh<br />

The local <strong>FIMA</strong> member, Bangladesh National<br />

Doctors Forum (BNDF) and SAWAB<br />

organization, started relief work, in collaboration<br />

with Muslim Aid-UK, and notified <strong>FIMA</strong> relief<br />

coordinator for urgent relief needs.<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>. Kamrul Ahsan, BNDF chairman, e-mailed<br />

information relief reports to <strong>FIMA</strong> coordinator<br />

and to member organizations.<br />

Donations came from Hayat-Turkey, IMASA,<br />

IMAKSA, PIMA and IMA-Jordan.<br />

On December 15-18,2007, Pr<strong>of</strong>. Mohammad Iqbal<br />

Khan (PIMA Relief) with the directorinternational<br />

affairs-al-Khidmat Foundation, came<br />

to the Cyclone-hit area, witnessed the grave<br />

situation with near complete lack <strong>of</strong> health care<br />

facilities.<br />

PIMA donated 2 ambulances to Bangladesh<br />

IMA/SAWAB, to serve coastal districts <strong>of</strong><br />

Borguna and Patuakhalr, and to transport poor<br />

patients to hospitals.<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>. Iqbal Khan-PIMA relief team in Bangladesh<br />

Gaza Crisis:<br />

2008:<br />

The world witnessed one <strong>of</strong> its worst humanitarian<br />

crisis on December 27, 2008, when Israeli war<br />

machine bombarded the helpless population <strong>of</strong><br />

Gaza, Palestine. Israel mounted unrelenting air,<br />

land and sea attacks, killing over 1,400 people,<br />

many <strong>of</strong> whom were women and children. More<br />

than 10,000 were injured, some <strong>of</strong> them seriously.<br />

Hundreds <strong>of</strong> thousands lost homes and became<br />

IDPs 17 .<br />

<strong>FIMA</strong> <strong>Year</strong><strong>Book</strong> <strong>2010</strong>-<strong>2011</strong><br />

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