Poland marks World Humanitarian Day
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
19.08.2018 08:43
Polish charity workers have urged people to support those affected by war and natural disaster as they mark the tenth World Humanitarian Day.
A young Afhgan girl. Photo: Spc. Christopher Nicholas/Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
According to Maria Juraszczyk of the Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH) charity, some 135 million people are in need of humanitarian aid around the world.
„That is a huge scale, the needs are huge, they lack basic things,” Juraszczyk said.
She urged people not to turn away their eyes from those needs.
Yemen, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Somalia, and South Sudan are areas in need of the most aid, according to PAH.
World Humanitarian Day was set up in 2008 by the United Nations. August 19 was selected as the date to commemorate the 2003 terrorist attack on a United Nations office in Baghdad in which 22 aid workers died. (vb)
Source: PAP, IAR