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By
Terry Orr
“This year’s World
Humanitarian Day presents an historic opportunity to bring together one billion
people from around the world to advance a powerful and proactive idea: People
Helping People. That is the best way to honour the many fallen aid workers we mourn
today, and to celebrate the efforts of others who carry on their noble mission
by rushing assistance to those who are suffering.”
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon
Every day humanitarian aid workers help millions of
people around the world, regardless of who they are and where they are. World
Humanitarian Day is a global celebration of people helping people.
This year’s
campaign "I Was Here" is about making your mark by doing something
good, somewhere, for someone else.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) states:
Natural disasters, conflicts and other emergencies
threaten the lives and health of millions of people every year. In the middle
of such crises, thousands of dedicated humanitarian workers strive to care for
those who have been affected and support local authorities to deliver
assistance. On World Humanitarian Day, WHO and other international bodies are
highlighting the roles performed by humanitarian workers, and remembering aid
workers who have been killed or injured while performing their vital roles.
World Humanitarian Day offers the chance:
- for the public to learn more about the humanitarian community, what aid workers do and the challenges they face;
- for nongovernmental and international bodies and UN agencies, to demonstrate their humanitarian activities;
- to pay respect to those who have died or been injured in the course of their humanitarian work.
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