The Durban-based NGO, South African Relief Agency (Sara), will be flying in aid to help citizens of the besieged Gaza strip in June.
The 14-strong convoy, which includes religious leaders, university professors, advocates, lawyers, school principals, doctors, and therapists, will fly to Cairo on June 14, before joining a convoy of trucks carrying aid to Gaza via the Rafah crossing.
“We will be taking aid in the form of medical equipment – dental chairs, X-ray machines, 200 wheelchairs, air mattresses, five containers of incontinence pads, milk powder, three truckloads of nappies, three truckloads of stationery, 200 crutches, and clothing,” said the agency’s secretary-general, Sheikh Walid El Saadi.
“We will be distributing the aid ourselves and visiting hospitals, schools, the aged and disabled, as well as seeing to ongoing projects and supporting traumatised children and those most affected by the ongoing war.”
El Saadi said agency’s mission was to show solidarity with the people of Palestine.
“As citizens of a democratic and free South Africa that fought and defeated apartheid, we believe that it is up to us to ensure that their plight is brought to the world’s attention,” he said.
The agency was formed in 2006 as a response to pleas from Palestinians who required international help. more
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