Iran
Emergency Food Relief for Eighty Destitute Iraqi Refugee Families in Qum
The 80 families targeted in this project have been introduced to IRAC by a partner organization that offers facilitation services to Iraqi refugees who face problems with the Iranian authorities, but does not have funding for assistance programs. These families are extremely poor due to a variety of circumstances. They applied to IRAC’s partner organization in despair, asking for food relief. Due to a steep rise in living expenses, especially utility cost, these families are no longer able to afford even the bare minimum amount of food. IRAC intends to provide each family with a basic food basket as specified below:
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Distribution of food basket to 80 destitute Iraqi refugee families in Qum |
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Food basket |
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No. |
Item |
Unit |
No. of units |
Unit cost |
Total Cost |
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1 |
Rice |
kg |
7 |
22,000 |
154,000 |
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2 |
Cooking oil |
bottle (900 ml) |
2 |
28,000 |
56,000 |
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3 |
Tomato paste |
tin (900 gr) |
2 |
16,500 |
33,000 |
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4 |
Sugar |
kg |
5 |
13,100 |
65,500 |
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5 |
White beans |
kg |
3 |
34,000 |
102,000 |
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Total Cost |
410,500 |
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After receiving the food basket, these families will be able to spend their extremely limited cash resources on small amounts of protein-rich food like meat, chicken and eggs as well as on vegetables, thereby consuming a more balanced diet for some time. Total project cost is shown in the table below:
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Total Project Cost |
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No. |
Item |
Cost per item (Rial) |
No. of items |
Full Cost |
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1 |
Food Basket |
410,500 |
80 |
32,840,000 |
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2 |
Packaging |
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500,000 |
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3 |
Transportation |
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800,000 |
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Total Project Cost |
34,140,000 |
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Forwarded from Kerosene budget |
19,443,000 |
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Funding Need (Rial) |
14,697,000 |
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Funding Need (GBP) |
794.43 |
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At the same time, this project will offer a good opportunity to become acquainted with these very needy families and explore ways to permanently improve their situation.
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Medical Referral Program (March 2012)
60 patients were assisted with treatment cost during March 2012, raising the total to 6,197 patients between October 2005 and March 2012, including 1,693 children aged 18 years and less.
LFT Donors: Please, continue to donate to this project. It costs only 30 GBP to assist a refugee patient with treatment cost and about 100 GBP to assist a patient from Iraq
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Kadhem Shakarchi is a 78-years old Iraqi refugee suffering from coronary heart disease. The elderly man lives with his daughters who are hardly able to gain enough to provide for rent and food. When he recently needed bypass surgery, despite insurance coverage and assistance from IRAC’s joint medical program with UNHCR, his daughters had to incur a debt amounting to seven million Rial to pay his hospital bill. Kadhem’s eldest daughter applied for help to IRAC’s office when Kadhem’s physician prescribed an expensive foreign drug whose cost is not covered by health insurance. IRAC on the spot purchased an amount of the drug sufficient for two months, not only ensuring that the patient receives the treatment he needs but also preventing that the family becomes more indebted.
A Chicken per Family 944 Orphan Families and Destitute Families benefited From 1 January to 31 December 2011
In a time of steep rises in the cost of living, the nutrition of families living on the subsistence level is endangered. Meat and chicken are the main source of protein in Iran. Both always were expensive, now, poor families cannot afford to buy them anymore. While a chicken per month is not enough to ensure adequate protein intake, it is a significant contribution. Since 2008, IRAC gives a chicken to beneficiaries of its joint orphan sponsorship program with LFT when they come to pick up their monthly sponsorships. Beneficiaries of an orphan sponsorship program funded by another donor also receive a chicken; so do beneficiaries of IRAC’s medical assistance programs who have special nutritional needs or are extremely destitute.
Medical Referral Program (February 2012)
57 patients were assisted with treatment cost during February 2012, raising the total to 6,137 patients between October 2005 and February 2012, including 1,683 children aged 18 years and less.
LFT Donors: Please, continue to donate to this project. It costs only 30 GBP to assist a refugee patient with treatment cost and about 100 GBP to assist a patient from Iraq.
The aim of LFT and IRAC’s joint Medical Referral Program is to enable needy patients to obtain necessary medical treatment although they are unable to pay its cost. IRAC also assists with the cost of emergency medical treatment if patients and their families are unable to pay the hospital bill after emergency admission.
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