Turkish Red Crescent to sacrifice 5,000 livestock in Somalia during Eid

Turkish Red Crescent will sacrifice 5,000 livestock in Somalia during the Feast of Sacrifice.

Turkish aid association will sacrifice 500 calf, 500 camels, and 4,000 sheep in Somalia during the feast.

The meat will be distributed to the needy in this famine-stricken country.

Moreover, Turkish Red Crescent’s chairman Ahmet Lutfi Akar said the aid organization would establish a food bank and a bakery in Somalia.

Akar said the Red Crescent was planning to construct a fountain to meet water need in Somalia, and open a nursery school.

Somalia is currently facing with one of the worst droughts in the past 60 years.

The epicenter of the drought lies on the three-way border shared by Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, a nomadic region where families heavily depend on the health of their livestock. Uganda and Djibouti have also been hit by the disaster.

Tens of thousands of people have so far been displaced due to the humanitarian situation in the region.

Festival of Sacrifice is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son Ishmael (Isma’il) as an act of obedience to God, before God intervened to provide him with a ram to sacrifice instead.

The meat is divided into three parts. The family retains one third of the share; another third is given to relatives, friends and neighbors; and the other third is given to the poor and needy.

Source: worldbulletin.net