{"id":3792,"date":"2023-03-22T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T01:08:16","slug":"new-zealands-rohingya-community-helps-flood-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3792","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s Rohingya community helps flood victims."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Rohingya Community in New Zealand would extend our deepest sympathies and condolences to earthquake victims in Syria, T\u00fcrkiye and flood victims in New Zealand who have been affected by flood &amp; Cyclone Gabrielle. To express our sympathy and support, we collected $30,000 NZD funds organized by Burmese Rohingya Welfare Organization New Zealand.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On 10th of March 2023, our delegation of 10 people visited the Embassy of T\u00fcrkiye in Wellington with our Chairman Mohammed Feroz who is the president of Burmese Rohingya Welfare Organization along with our Vice Charman Akbar Shah. It was an honor for us to meet \u00d6m\u00fcr \u00dcNSAY the ambassador of T\u00fcrkiye and her team. We contributed $20,000 NZD to help the earthquake victims and affected families in T\u00fcrkiye. We would like to thank the ambassador and her team for their precious time and for sharing the current situation of the earthquake victims.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On 18th of March, our delegation of 14 people traveled to Hastings with 100 food packs worth $10,000 NZD along with the people of Masjid Ayesha to distribute the food back to flood affected victims and families. We visited Hastings Masjid and Hastings Food Distribution Centre.\u00a0 We donated 50 Food back to Hastings Food Distribution Centre managed by Hawke\u2019s Bay Emergency Management &amp; Civil Defence. It was an honor meeting Symon and Henry from Civil Defence who are in charge of food distribution. Another 50 packs of food packs were distributed to flood victim Muslim Families in Hastings. We would like to remind the flood victims of New Zealand that they are not forgotten and we remember them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We would like to take the opportunity to thank all the Rohingya community in New Zealand for their generous contribution and support toward this collecting cause. We also would like to thank AMY for their contribution and support and for allowing us to use their center at the time of funds. We would like to thank Masjid Ayesha for organizing the Hastings visit, without their support we would not have been able to distribute the food. Last but not the least; we would like to thank every single person who helped us to make this a successful event. Without your help this would not have been possible.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>Burmese Rohingya Welfare organization is a non-profit organization and charitable trust managed by the Rohingya Community in Auckland. Rohingya community in New Zealand is a very small community consisting of close to 120 Rohingya families mostly former Refugees resettled in from Bangladesh Refugee Camp and from Malaysia. We are a very young and inexperienced community. We are looking forward to collaborating with other communities and growing together with them. 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To express our sympathy and support, we collected $30,000 NZD funds organized by Burmese Rohingya Welfare Organization New Zealand. On 10th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}