Gathered under a sea of colourful umbrellas on a rainy Istanbul morning, a large convoy of women set off on a roughly 1,200km road trip to the Syrian border bearing a simple message: Syrian women subjected to unimaginable suffering in that country's jails need to be freed immediately. About 60 busloads of women, including activists and NGO members from 55 countries, on Tuesday embarked on a two-day trip to the […]
The Muslim Judicial council’s Women’s Forum (MJCWF) is calling on South Africans to heed the call and contribute to a consignment of humanitarian aid that is destined for Syria. With the Syrian war heading into its eighth year, the United Nations Human Rights commission (UNHRC) has recorded over six-point-one million internally displaced people. The UN further estimates that close to three million people have found themselves in hard to reach […]
VOC reporter Yaseen Kippie rounds up his recent humanitarian trip to the Syria-Turkey border with these images, which reflect the love, warmth, strength and resilience of the Syrian people through war and adversity. During our recent trip to the Turkish Syrian border, we met a myriad of refugees affected the Syrian crisis, here are a few: Meeting one of the 'Mujahideen', as referred to by the IHH officials. The Syrians […]
This is the third in a series of articles by Yaseen Kippie, following his recent trip the Syria-Turkey border. The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) in conjunction with the Darul Islam Zakah and Relief Funds (DAIZAF) and IHH Humanitarian Foundation embarked on a relief trip from the 19th to 26th February 2017 to the Turkish Syrian border to meet and deliver aid to the over 3.5 million Syrian Refugees living there. […]
It's been an emotionally draining week for VOC's Yaseen Kippie who has gained a first hand account of the disastrous impact of the war in Syria. Yaseen spent the past week at the Syrian border with Turkey, visiting various refugee camps with the leadership of the Muslim Judicial Council and the Al Quds Foundation. The tour is being coordinated by the IHH humanitarian agency in Turkey. Yaseen has interviewed many […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
