Recent floods have submerged farmland and left people homeless in many regions of Afghanistan. In March of this year, a relief team formed by fellow initiates from Hong Kong arrived in the western Herat Province, bringing Master’s love and relief fund of US$15,000 to assist flood victims in Pashtun Zarghun District.

In Herat City, the team purchased 18 tons of flour, rice and vegetable oil, which was then packed into more than 200 portions. At a meeting with Mr. Said Kamalu ddin, head of Pashtun Zarghun District, they learned that the roads to the affected areas were hazardous. Hence, they decided to dispatch the relief supplies through special channels by trucks, and have them handed out by the local government. Thanks to Mr. Kamalu ddin’s enormous help, the distribution work proceeded smoothly. Also after reading our SOS flyers, he highly supported the ideas expressed therein and offered to have them attached to the vegetable oil containers that were to be delivered, and to have 500 copies handed out at his government offices.

The fellow initiates also received considerable assistance with the relief work in Herat City from Dr. Shahrokh Pazhman, Humanitarian Affairs Officer of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Upon returning to Hong Kong, they sent him US$5,000 for further relief supply purchases for the people. Dr. Pazhman wrote a letter to Master, conveying his gratitude for Her generous assistance to the flood-affected households and destitute people in Afghanistan. Expressing a wish to join our Association, he wrote: “After seeing people from your group in Afghanistan, I am really impressed and want to join this decent and lovely organization. I want to volunteer for the organization and represent it in Afghanistan. There are many young Afghan citizens who are interested in helping us in this regard. I would be honoured to be accepted as a member of this organization and work for it.” After hearing about the prerequisites to learning the Quan Yin Method of meditation, he insisted on receiving the full initiation and decided to observe the vegetarian diet immediately.

In this relief operation, 2,000 SOS flyers were distributed. As a team, they also contributed US$500, of their own person funds, to a women’s care group that they visited in Herat City.

A letter of appreciation from Dr. Shahrokh Pazhman, Humanitarian Affairs Officer of the UNOCHA	Receipts for relief supply purchases totaling 505,075 Afghanis (US$10,000) and for the US$5,000 contribution

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To view the Humanitarian Relief Activities by the Supreme Master Ching Hai and Her International Association, please visit :http://www.GodsDirectContact.org.tw/humanitarian (The list can be sorted by year, country/region and type of events.)