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Refugee Camp Closures
At the height of the war, more than 300,000
Chechens lived in squalid over-crowded conditions
in refugee camps in Ingushetia. The last remaining
camp was closed down in June 2004, but without
guarantees for their security or well-being,
the 60,000 Chechens still in Ingushetia are
reluctant to return home.
Those that do return often have nowhere to go,
and are forced into the government-run "Temporary
Accommodation Centres" in the capital Grozny.
Overcrowded with eight or more people sharing
a room designed for six, the temporary accommodation
centres frequently have no running water or
functioning sewage systems.
Islamic Relief
in Chechnya
Since 1995 Islamic Relief (IR) has been committed
to helping the Chechens by providing food, clean
water, shelter, and primary medical care.
IR & WFP Joint Food Programme: Ingushetia
In May, IR provided food assistance to displaced
Chechens in Ingushetia in partnership with WFP.
Food parcels were distributed in villages in
the Nazran region and the Satsita camp.
Islamic Relief's regular food
parcel distributions reached over 3,000
people in the Bart
and Sputnik camps in February,
one month before the camps were closed.
IR Complementary Food
Programme: Chechnya
In May, IR continued to implement its complementary
food programme in Temporary Accomodation Centres
in Grozny. Families residing in 7 Temporary
Accommodation Centres were provided with food
parcels and hygienic sets.
IR also continued to provide food assistance
to over 30,000 Chechens in
rural parts of Grozny. The food packs, provided
by WFP, included flour, sugar, oil and salt.
IR & WFP School Feeding
Project : Hot Meals for Children
Over 21,000 primary school and kindergarten
children in Grozny , Grozny
Rural, and Gudermes in Chechnya benefit from
this joint programme with the WFP. To ensure
that children eat at least one hot meal a day
the schools receive food supplies to prepare
a daily meal of rice porridge.
IR Qurbani Programme 2004
In February Islamic Relief implemented the
seasonal Qurbani programme, and distributed
fresh meat, sausages and food parcels to thousands
of displaced Chechens in the Bart and Sputnik
camps in Ingushetia, and thirteen Temporary
Accommodation Centres in Chechnya .
IR Healthcare
Programme
When the Alina camp was closed in December,
Islamic Relief's clinic also shut down, after
2 years of providing vital healthcare to displaced
families. Sputnik camp clinic treated almost
1500 people in February, before it too closed
down when the camp was dismantled.
Acronyms
IR – Islamic Relief
IDP – Internally Displaced Person
WFP– United Nations World Food Programme
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