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It’s something many of us take for granted. But in many areas we work, clean water simply isn’t available.

Caravan of Mercy aims to play an active part in trying to provide safe clean water around the world. We aim to achieve this by installing hand pumps and boreholes in those areas that are most in need.

Photo: A Donor installed a hand pump in Bangladesh for Shaykh Mawlānā Muhammad Saleem Dhorat hafizahullāh.

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Sweets For The School Children (Day 3) – 18 March 2015

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Salaams all,

Today we had breakfast again at Abu Hamid’s at 9.00hrs. Our program for today felt like it was going to be very easy because we only had 70 parcels to distribute in Billani. On our way there we bought some sweets for the school children. When we arrived in Billani village there was already a crowd waiting for us and crowded the van even before we could get out, after about 20 mins of trying to convince them to go and wait in their home or what resembles a home we sent the van with the food parcels away and said to them that if they didn’t return to their homes we are just going to give the school children the sweets and leave without doing any distribution as we started giving the sweets to the children in the classrooms the crowd dispersed so we eventually got the distribution on the way. The first 10-11 houses went well and then the crowd started following us because we missed some houses (we were only distributing to the homes of those the village chief told us were the most needy)

Mohammed Saeed Adam
Trustee

Reyhanli
Turkey

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Refugees Are In Desperate Need For Aid (Day 2) – 17 March 2015

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Salaams all,

We had breakfast at Abu Hamid’s today at 8.30 hrs and then we made a quick consultation and we decided we will do 2 things today:
1) go and see head of border security to see if we can cross over to Atmeh Camp
2) visit 2 villages called Billani and Hassa that Hiba identified as in desperate need for food aid.

Abu Abdullah quickly made the calls and managed to get an appointment to see head of border security for 10.00hrs. We met with him for just over an hour. He informed us that all borders into Syria are closed and even if he could arrange for us to go to Atmeh the security risk is too high and the atmosphere in the camp is very tense. Therefore any hope of crossing to Atmeh have now been cancelled and instead concentrate on aid distribution in Turkey. There is a new influx of refugees coming into Turkey from Syria. Since I arrived on Sunday I have been hearing of reports and have seen pictures of what looks like chemical weapons being used on the civilian population by the Syrian army and I suspect the fear of further chemical attack is driving this new wave of refugees.
We arrived in Billani a village situated approx. 1km from Baabul Hawwa border crossing and 8 kms from Reyhanli. We quickly saw that the refugees are in desperate need for aid. To my absolute surprise there was a refugee school being run in 4 prefabricated building each about 8ft x10ft which were provided by AFAD who I am told have something to do with the UN. The school has about 150 children from the age of 5 to 10/11 years of age. The 4 teachers who are also Syrian refugees teach for free.

Mohammed Saeed Adam
Trustee

Reyhanli
Turkey