Aid workers come together in collective effort to alleviate extreme needs - Ditoka

Aid workers, volunteers, first responders and health care professionals come together to alleviate extreme needs and extend a helping hand precisely at all times.

Minister for Rural and Maritime Development and Disaster Management, Sakiasi Ditoka highlighted this while officiating the World Humanitarian Day.

Minister says the occasion holds great significance for the global humanitarian community, particularly in Fiji to honour the unwavering spirit and compassion that unites us.

Ditoka says it is to celebrate the remarkable effort of those who dedicate their lives to improving our world despite the phase of challenges.

He says the occasion also reminds us that we all are interconnected in the race of poverty, conflict and disaster, something that requires collective efforts from everyone.

World Humanitarian Day was established in remembrance of the 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarter in Baghdad, in which 22 humanitarians and staff lost their lives.