A HUMANITARIAN charity is expecting a fresh wave of war-ravaged refugees seeking its aid from camps around Iraq’s Mosul now the city seems to be finally liberated from the control of Islamic State.

Sikh charity, Khalsa Aid, has been active in the region since 2014.

The charity has devoted most of its resources to providing support to those living in makeshift refugee camps built outside official UN control. Many of the people they support are Yazidi women displaced by the violence, to whom they provide food, clothing and medical care.

Currently, the Slough charity supports 250 women, but they expect the number will soon swell as more women slip through the fingers of Islamic State’s weakening hold on the region.

Khalsa Aid chief executive, Ravi Singh, 48, from Langley, said: “Many of these women have been trapped or held captive in Mosul since 2014. The male members of their family are often missing or dead.”

“We help support them by guaranteeing them food every month, and provide medical assistance, particularly for any special needs children who require a particular diet or medicine.”

The charity is currently represented in the region by one co-ordinator and four-to-five volunteers.

It receives no government funding, and is supported entirely with donations. “We (Sikhs) have a very generous community” said Mr Singh.

“We also receive a great deal of support from non-Sikhs. We helped out in the flooding in Somerset and Yorkshire, and recently in the flash-flooding in Cornwall – more of our volunteers are going down there this week. We’ve built lots of friendships in the local communities.”

“Its good to see our message of recognising the whole human race as one is reaching people.”