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Qatar Charity (QC) has completed its first phase of aid relief distribution to flood victims in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
QC provided food parcels, which included flour, sugar, oil, pasta, rice, water and milk, in addition to hygiene kits, clothing, blankets and cleaning materials to 2,500 people throughout the municipal areas of Doboj, Maglaj, Olovo and Samac.
Incessant rains for more than two weeks in the Balkans caused catastrophic flooding, landslides, destroying homes and displacing thousands. Dozens of people have been killed, thousands left homeless, crops washed away and roads and bridges destroyed. This flooding is the worst since records began 120 years ago, according to meteorologists.
So far, locally based staff and volunteers from QC led the response efforts while follow-up recovery activities will have the additional support from the disaster preparedness and response department in Doha.
QC has been working in Bosnia and Herzegovina for more than 20 years having formally established its presence there in 1994.
