The
International Islamic Youth League (IIYL) African Youth Development Centre
yesterday donated 400 bags of rice (25kg), 50 bags of sugar (50kg) and 400
gallons of 5 liter cooking oil to the National Disaster Management Agency
(NDMA).
In
addition to the materials, IIYL pledged to give NDMA D40, 000 for the
transportation of the materials as well as for its loading and
off-loading.
IIYL
is one of the leading humanitarian, non-governmental, non-ethnic organisations,
providing minimum standards of
protection and assistance to refugees,
returnees and internally displaced persons in the areas of Water and
Sanitation, education, primary healthcare delivery services, food aid,
agricultural and orphan support.
It
was also to provide other community development services assistance in a drive
of repatriation, resettlement, reconstruction and emergency relief and
disasters response worldwide to alleviate the lives of affected people of both
natural and human disasters.
Speaking
at the presentation ceremony held at the NDMA Office, Omar Jammeh, IIYL
Director of Children and Orphans, thanked NDMA for opening their doors to them.
He
also expressed their readiness to continue collaborating with NDMA as they
could not work in disaster areas without involving them.
Mr
Jammeh announced plans to support 500 orphans across the country this year.
Alhajie
Sanneh, Executive Director of NDMA, thanked IIYL for the gesture on behalf of
government, office of the vice president, NDMA and The Gambia in general.
He
declared that they anticipate disaster issues to be disturbing this year based
on the predictions given that there would be heavy rains.
“We look forward to this kind of support in
the future,” he stated, while recalling that they recorded 15, 000 people
affected by storm of flash flood last year.
He
assured them that the materials would be delivered to the people that really
deserve them.
IIYL’s
vision is to inspire and empower young people initiative and realisation of
human potentials to contribute to peace, human security, and development within
communities and responding to humanitarian and natural disaster and development
paradigm in pre and post conflict countries.
Its
mission is building partnership and networking with humanitarian, development
agencies and governments to promote positive agenda for young people and
provision of protection and program assistance to the most marginalized and
disadvantaged people and people affected by forced disappearance and natural
disasters.
IIYL
main objectives includes: promote and empower all category of youth; provide
humanitarian relief and emergency response; provide protection, care and
maintenance for vulnerable children; prevention and response to gender-based
violence; promote education and technical vocational skills for marginalized
people; promote environmental protection and sustainability; strengthen
community health and sanitation driven programs; promote charities to the
homeless and orphan children; promote good governance, justice and
accountability; promote water, sanitation and hygiene practices to prevent
diseases among others.
