Aid volunteer Nazim Ali is ready to set off on his latest mercy mission to help Rohingya refugees.

The careers advisor from Manningham, Bradford, will be travelling out to the Myanmar/Bangladesh border region with an international humanitarian agency to deliver much-needed aid.

Mr Ali will spend one week working with Dewsbury-based SKT Welfare and is appealing for donations of money to help buy life-saving essentials.

A £20 donation will buy a 24kg food parcel of rice, potatoes, lentils, oil, sugar, vermicelli, onion and salt for a refugee family.

The trip has been funded by himself, which means that 100 per cent of the donations all go direct to the cause, he said.

Mr Ali said: “Their plight is desperate with over 620,000 and counting having fled into Bangladesh since August 2017 and are now living in makeshift refugee camps.

“They have barely survived with their lives and lost their family members, not to mention homes and sustained horrific injuries.

“Thousands more have been killed.

“One cannot comprehend the horrors they have witnessed.

“I have watched on in horror at the plight of the Rohingya refugees and felt I needed to make my contribution having also been approached by members of the public urging me to go out and assist the refugees,” he added.

Devout British Muslim Mr Ali, who has delivered aid on multiple trips to the Turksih/Syrian border, also volunteers weekly with Bradford’s Curry Circle Project, serving hot food to some of the city’s most vulnerable people.

He said he had used his own savings to fund the trip, which he takes as part of his annual holiday from his day job.

“With it being winter, the aid is more needed than ever, aid workers on the ground have consistently said there is a constant need for food in particular due to the constant flood of Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh.

“Hundreds of thousands are suffering and in desperate need of assistance.

“No amount is too small or too big – it all adds up.

“The more money that is raised will mean the more food parcels I am able to hand out.

“I hope people will once more support me to help the Rohingya refugees, as I always state I can only do what I do with the generous support of the British public and I’m hopeful once more they will get behind me.”

In the past 11 years, Mr Ali has raised £123,000 for charity by running marathons, 10K runs and climbing mountains. His last charity challenge was the National 3 Peaks in August 2017.

Before that, he ran the Hull 10K on the warmest day of the year while fasting in Ramadan.

People can donate via justgiving.com/nazim4rohingya