Today, IAC has handed over the necessary funds to Dr Hassan for the relocation of his family out of Gaza. Once they arrive in Egypt, IAC will also cover costs of travel to Maldives.
At the end of March, Dr Hassan Al Kordi, husband and father of two sons and two daughters between the ages of 13 and 20, appealed to the people and authorities of Maldives to extend any possible assistance towards bringing his family from Gaza to the Maldives at the earliest.
Dr Hassan works as a Professor teaching Arabic in the Islamic University of Maldives.
International Aid Campaign (IAC) offered to bear all the costs involved in relocating Dr Hassan's family out of Gaza.
Today, IAC has handed over the necessary funds to Dr Hassan.
For assuring exit out of Gaza, USD 10,000 needs to be paid per person, making the total payment for this family an amount of USD 50,000.
IAC shared a post on Instagram today where they announced that the funds have now been handed over to Dr Hassan.
IAC said that once the family is moved out of Gaza and brought to Egypt, the organization will also bear the costs of their travel to Maldives.
"The hope and prayer is the Doctor's family is swiftly brought to Maldives in good health," IAC stated.
With the family facing lack of housing and scarcity of food, IAC has previously, on March 18, extended food aid to them as well.
Hassan has been working in Maldives for eight years. His family also came to stay with him here in 2018. However, near the end of 2019, the borders closed just after they had travelled to Gaza with the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, effectively disallowing their travel back to the Maldives. Since then, the elder two of his four children began tertiary education, making the parents decide to delay the move to Maldives until they completed their education.
In the continued attacks on Gaza, Dr Hassan reports that their home has also been entirely destroyed.
The family initially lived in Al Bureij in Gaza. However, after their home was damaged beyond the point of inhabitation, they moved to the wife's parents' are of Khan Younis. With difficulties of finding accommodation there, they later moved to Rafah.
Hassan, currently in Egypt, hopes to arrange visas and live in the Maldives with his family.
"I am trying to bring them all here somehow. Even if the attacks stop, there is nowhere left for them to go. Our home has been destroyed in the attacks. If this war goes on, and if they are unable to leave Gaza, I do not know if I will see them again. They might die through a bombing, or even through famine," he said in his appeal.
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