He is Accompanied by his Foreign Minister with their Families.
As the first humanitarian aid gathered by the combined efforts of TİKA, other government institutions and private enterprise landed earlier this week in famine-stricken Somalia, Çam and aid teams led by Turkish Red Crescent Society (Kızılay) General Manager Ömer Taşlı visited refugee camps on Tuesday to deliver aid packages to the Somalis, the Anatolia news agency reported. The delegation talked to the famine-stricken people as they handed out packages containing milk, biscuits, chocolate and candies to children. Having witnessed signs that “the Somali state is gradually setting up its own system,” Çam said that the people of Somalia needed peace and comfort before the state can reach all its citizens and take care of their needs.
“As a society that feels deeply for the pain Somalis are going through, particularly in this holy month of Ramadan, we are here to deliver food aid to the country and make sure it reaches people even in the farthest corners of the land,” Çam was quoted as saying by Anatolia.
Commenting on the branch TİKA office to be established in Mogadishu, Çam reiterated that there was much to do in the long term to develop the country, strengthen the infrastructure and empower the state in the service of its people, which made it a must for TİKA to establish the office. “We will try to contribute to the Somali state by the facilities of our own country,” Çam said.
