KUNA : Int’l aid organisations face challenging times due to coronavirus – Human – 19/11/2021 – Kuwait News Agency

KUNA : Int’l aid organisations face challenging times due to coronavirus – Human – 19/11/2021 – Kuwait News Agency

(News report by Nawab Khan) BRUSSELS, Nov 19 (KUNA) -- The coronavirus pandemic has affected the work of humanitarian and charity aid organisations globally but also provided them with new challenges to offer their services to the needy. "Pandemic has provided us with a fresh humanitarian challenge, but it has also affected our capacity to deliver the normal humanitarian responses that we were doing before the pandemic," said Ed Blagden, head of supply operations in Oxfam international aid organisation. He was speaking to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) at the international aid and development community exhibition, AIDEX, which was held in the Brussels Fair grounds on Wednesday and Thursday (17 and 18 November). "The challenge for us is to deliver aid and service amidst the pandemic," said Blagden. He noted that Oxfam has been playing an important role in countries like India by providing face masks, sanitary kits and oxygen concentrators. They are also engaged in humanitarian work in Yemen, Ethiopia and recently in Afghanistan. On his part, Secretary General of Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) of Turkey, Dumrus Aydin, said the Istanbul-based organisation is engaged in humanitarian and emergency aid in 123 countries around over the world since 1992. It