A charity run by women in Mozambique’s northern Nampula province has donated over $37,000 worth of aid to victims of the war in Gaza.
The Muslim women’s organisation Fih Sabilillah has so far raised $37,920 from the local community to buy drinking water, food, baby milk and nappies. Around $1,800 was raised for gifts for children for Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of Ramadan. The aid has reached at least 200 families with a minimum of two children each.
The aid has been delivered to the southern Gazan cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, which have both been devastated by Israeli bombing.
The Fih Sabilillah coordinator, Fawzia Hanif, told Zitamar News that the money was raised from the local community in Nampula and via social media, with donations coming from across Mozambique and South Africa. The charity is continuing to raise money for Gaza.
Money is sent to Gaza, via contacts in Jordan, and all the goods are bought locally to bypass the border as there is no guarantee that humanitarian convoys will reach their destination, according to Hanif.
Fih Sabilillah was founded in 2012 and works mainly with widows, the elderly, orphans, displaced people, hospitals, prison inmates, nursing homes, orphanages, and children with special needs in Nampula.
Over 33,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since 7 October, the majority of them women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, and over 2m people have been displaced.
