{"id":8611,"date":"2021-07-22T22:17:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T22:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2021-07-25T09:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T09:33:36","slug":"turkish-aid-group-distributes-holiday-meat-to-80k-families-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/07\/22\/turkish-aid-group-distributes-holiday-meat-to-80k-families-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish aid group distributes holiday meat to 80K families in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> The Turkish Red Crescent Society distributed meat to needy people on Thursday for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The holiday commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim, or Abraham, to sacrifice his son at God&#8217;s command before the last-minute divine substitute of a ram.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sacrificed meat is distributed to the needy during the three-day holiday. Aid from the group reached more than 80,000 families in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 30 areas were distribution sites, including the capital, Mogadishu, and Hargeisa, the second-largest city and self-declared capital of the breakaway region of Somaliland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meat distribution was conducted in internally displaces person camps, orphanages, hospitals, and disability centers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We slaughtered 850 head of cattle in Mogadishu, 650 in Beletweyne, 650 in Kismayo, 4,550 goats in Galkacyo, 4,550 goats in Bosaso, and 650 head of cattle in Hergeisa,&#8221; Orhan Kokcu, the head of the Red Crescent&#8217;s Somalia delegation, told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is important to distribute the aid to families in need because it is the Eid al-Adha holiday and Turkish people wanted to share the happiness with their Somali brothers and sisters, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said humanitarians are happy that they were able to reach families in need and put smiles on their faces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In the face of the difficulties that Somalis experienced, this brotherhood and friendship will increasingly continue that restarted in 2011 and will continue in the following years,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/turkish-aid-group-distributes-holiday-meat-to-80-000-families-in-somalia-for-muslim-holiday\/2311780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> View original<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; The Turkish Red Crescent Society distributed meat to needy people on Thursday for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. The holiday commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim, or Abraham, to sacrifice his son at God&#8217;s command before the last-minute divine substitute of a ram. Sacrificed meat is distributed to the needy during &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8620,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions\/8620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}