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Donate NowMike Seawright talk to Adrian Goldberg on BBC Mornings
December 14, 2016 | News
Listen to ReliefAid Founder Mike Seawright talk to Adrian Goldberg on BBC Mornings about the conflict and ReliefAid response in Aleppo Mike’s interview begins at 01:09:20 to 01:15:50
Founder of ReliefAid discusses the evacuations from eastern Aleppo on BBC Radio 4
December 14, 2016 | News
Listen to ReliefAid’s Mike Seawright on BBC Radio 4, discuss the situation surrounding the evacuations from eastern Aleppo which are meant to have started around 3am this morning – but the situation of those who were trapped in the city remains unclear. Click on the image below to listen to the show, Mike’s section begins
2016 is coming to an end but unfortunately our work is not.
December 12, 2016 | News
Your support has enabled us to deliver life-saving aid to over 39,000 men, women and children who living in a war zone do not have the basics necessary to survive extreme living conditions.
Aleppo is quickly moving from the crisis it was to a complete humanitarian catastrophe
December 7, 2016 | News
Mike Seawright from ReliefAid speaks to Radio New Zealand Nights Presenter Bryan Crump. Mike observes "Aleppo is quickly moving from the crisis it was to a complete humanitarian catastrophe" and explains what life's like for families living in the war ravaged city and the challenges of delivering aid.
ReliefAid – A local charity with global reach
December 4, 2016 | News
A charity based in Grey-Lynn has not been immune to the violence in Syria, having experienced the destruction of it's Aleppo City office and killing of staff by snipers.
ReliefAid Press Release: Aleppo residents without hope
December 4, 2016 | News
Aleppo residents have ‘no food, no water, and no hope’. Aleppo based staff from Kiwi humanitarian organisation ReliefAid ask ‘How could the world stand by as our people are killed?’
Civilians flee Aleppo to escape regime troops
November 29, 2016 | News
ReliefAid founder Mike Seawright told Rachel Smalley the main emotion being held by his staff and the community is fear.
Syria where aid workers are deliberately and systematically targeted
September 22, 2016 | News
Mike Seawright, Executive Director of ReliefAid speaks to Newstalk ZB Larry Williams about the targeting of humanitarian workers and the challenges delivering aid in the most bombed city in the world.
ReliefAid Press Release: A Unique Opportunity for Peace
September 14, 2016 | Uncategorised
Kiwi humanitarian organisation ReliefAid chief speaks out after one of his Aleppo aid colleagues was killed by a sniper. With a cessation of hostilities having come into effect on Monday ‘we call on all parties to take up this unique opportunity for peace.’
ReliefAid Press Release: Aid agencies in the firing line
August 23, 2016 | Uncategorised
Aid agencies in the firing line – Shelter kits distributed in Aleppo City, Syria by Kiwi humanitarian organisation ReliefAid just ahead of an air strike on their offices. ReliefAid worker speaks from inside the city - ‘People who will not die from bombing will start to starve’
A day in the life of an Aleppo City resident
August 20, 2016 | Uncategorised
Mike Seawright, Executive Director of ReliefAid speaks to the BBC Radio Cornwall’s Victoria Gould about life in Aleppo City and the challenges in delivering aid in the most bombed city in the world.
ReliefAid Press Release: World Humanitarian Day
August 19, 2016 | Uncategorised
‘We are waiting to die.’ Aleppo aid workers heartfelt plea to the international community ahead of World Humanitarian Day 19 August In the week when the UN calls for a more humane world, New Zealand humanitarian organisation ReliefAid reports a graphic description of the fear and suffering inside war-shattered Aleppo. With 150 air strikes in a day, and aid workers, their families and buildings in constant peril, they warn ‘nowhere is safe’
