Emirates Red Crescent continues to provide humanitarian aid to Yemen under the directives of Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed, Ruler’s Representative in the Western Region and Chairman of the ERC.
The ERC sent 170 employees and volunteers in eight directorates in Aden and the neighboring regions to distribute food baskets to more than 4,330 families in Yemen.
More than 57,000 families have benefitted from the ERC’s humanitarian aid so far.
Thousands of tonnes of equipment for maintenance and rehabilitation have also been shipped on to aid in the maintenance of public facilities around Aden. Fourteen ships have been equipped with rehabilitating devices to work on educational, medical and electrical facilities.
The ERC said more than 50 trucks have also travelled via land to deliver aid. The trucks were filled with food goods worth Dh63 million.
ERC teams also provide all kind of nutrition baskets to needy families and families of martyrs to reduce their pain.
In terms of maintenance projects, 154 schools will be restored while 50 have already been equipped and furnished for the new academic year, which began in October.
The total amount put into the maintenance of schools is Dh81.3 million.
The ERC also rehabilitated the infrastructure of public hospitals, as well as prepared kidney dialysis centres with a total amount of Dh35 million spent on it.
Three other fertility clinics will be rehabilitated with furniture and medical equipment costing up to Dh4 million. Another nine clinics will be rehabilitated with medical storages.
The ERC also pre-paid Dh4 million to purchase medication for cancer patients, and Dh5 million for new ambulances.
Water sanitation and wells were also purchased along with the pumps necessary to operate them, at a cost of Dh6 million. The ERC will work on maintaining a number of electrical stations and purchasing electrical generators in Aden, which will cost more than Dh220 million, to meet 90 per cent of the electricity needs there.
The ERC will also work on rehabilitating the Corniche of Koud Nimr in Aden with costs reaching up to Dh4 million, and that is by maintaining docks, planting trees and placing umbrellas. Eight other parks will also be rehabilitated around the province, with playgrounds for children included.
During Eid Al Adha, the ERC celebrated with child cancer patients in a Dh45 million festival. Holiday sacrifices were distributed to families as well as new Eid clothes for blind and disabled children.
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