Food assistance was distributed to needy families and people with special needs in Al Soum in the Hadramaut Governorate in Yemen on Thursday.
The Emirates Red Crescent's (ERC) aid included basic food supplies for each family, which is part of the organisation's efforts to alleviate suffering of the area's population.
Abdul Aziz Al Jaberi, representative of the ERC team said that it provides relief and humanitarian support for the people of Yemen in the liberated areas to bring back normalcy and lessen burdens on the population, while meeting their necessary humanitarian needs.
Last week, the ERC distributed school bags to students of two schools in the Tarim Directorate in Hadramaut, as part of the Year of Giving Initiative launched by UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The assistance is part of a series of projects from the ERC in the educational field along with other programmes to prepare an educated generation, able to build a new Yemen that is free from wars and crises.
Last month, the organisation signed an agreement for a project to supply pumps and pipes to connect two artesian wells to the main water well in Al Odaiba in Ghayl Ba Wazir in Hadramaut to collect water for use in local services and production.
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Just as McDonald’s has the Big Mac, Jollibee has Spicy Chickenjoy – a piece of fried chicken that’s crispy and spicy on the outside and comes with a side of spaghetti, all covered in tomato sauce and topped with sausage slices and ground beef. It sounds like a recipe that a child would come up with, but perhaps that’s the point – a flavourbomb combination of cheap comfort foods. Chickenjoy is Jollibee’s best-selling product in every country in which it has a presence.
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Siblings: five brothers and one sister
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Zakat definitions
Zakat: an Arabic word meaning ‘to cleanse’ or ‘purification’.
Nisab: the minimum amount that a Muslim must have before being obliged to pay zakat. Traditionally, the nisab threshold was 87.48 grams of gold, or 612.36 grams of silver. The monetary value of the nisab therefore varies by current prices and currencies.
Zakat Al Mal: the ‘cleansing’ of wealth, as one of the five pillars of Islam; a spiritual duty for all Muslims meeting the ‘nisab’ wealth criteria in a lunar year, to pay 2.5 per cent of their wealth in alms to the deserving and needy.
Zakat Al Fitr: a donation to charity given during Ramadan, before Eid Al Fitr, in the form of food. Every adult Muslim who possesses food in excess of the needs of themselves and their family must pay two qadahs (an old measure just over 2 kilograms) of flour, wheat, barley or rice from each person in a household, as a minimum.
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