Arakan News Agency
The Hayat Foundation said they concluded the humanitarian projects on Thursday for displaced people in the Rohingya villages of Maungdaw city of Arakan state in Myanmar.
The foundation’s director Abdul Aziz bin Mirdah said “the project started from the beginning of this week, with 232 bags of rice were distributed to 463 families and the number of beneficiaries were 2427 people.”
Bin Mirdah pointed out that the foundation has been able to reach the displaced people through some Islamic preachers in Arakan at a time when the Government of Myanmar prevented the entry of aid organization in the displaced and burned villages.
For his part, one of the supervisors’ of the foundation said the distribution of the aid is needed for the families whose are living in a state of terror and fear with the army movements, and calls on all Muslims to come to their rescue with food and medicine.
Arakan State of Myanmar has been experiencing since the October 9 military operations against Rohingya civilians which resulted in hundreds of deaths and thousands of displaced people also burned hundreds of homes that have been spotted by Human Rights Watch via high-resolution satellite images, which showed that at least 1 250 buildings in five villages belonging to the Rohingya in Arakan state were completely destroyed.
The displaced families are living in the open and camps made of fabrics after the Myanmar government burned their entire villages.
Images emerges of charred bodies of children, women and the elderly were killed or were unable to flee the fires.
It should be noted that the foundation has carried out advocacy and relief projects last Ramadan for Rohingyas in Arakan.
