Terengganu launches campaign to raise funds for Rohingya refugees

KUALA TERENGGANU: The Terengganu government today launched the "Terengganu for Rohingya" campaign to raise money for a humanitarian aid fund set up to assist the ethnic Rohingya at the refugee camp in Bangladesh.
The campaign that is organised by the New Terengganu Transformation (TTB) Volunteer Squad, with the cooperation of the state's Umno Youth and Puteri Umno, has chosen the Rohingya camp in Bangladesh as it was the biggest camp which housed 400,000 refugees who were currently in dire need of humanitarian aid.
Its secretariat head, Samiun Salleh said the TTB Squad would also collaborate with numerous departments, government-linked companies (GLCs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to raise the humanitarian aid fund.
"Our target is to raise RM1 million that would be personally handed over to them in numerous forms of aid such as food, medicine and daily needs.
"Currently, we plan to bring along 50 TTB volunteers and will also collaborate with Mercy Malaysia to have a team of volunteer doctors to provide medical treatment to the ethnic Rohingya refugees," he told reporters at a press conference here today.
Samiun said the humanitarian aid fund was the brainchild of Terengganu Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Razif Abd Rahman and the mission is expected to visit the refugees at the end of October. — Bernama