Emirates Red Crescent will carry out a Dh36 million development plan in Comoros, it was agreed on Tuesday.
Obaid Al Baloushi, head of the ERC delegation in Comoros, signed the agreement with Dr Taqeyuldin Yousef, Comoros' Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the capital of Moroni.
The funds will be used to restore vital infrastructure that was destroyed when Cyclone Kenneth struck the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in April, killing at least three people in Comoros.
Projects include the restoration of damaged houses and school buildings, as well as the establishment of a hospital for women and children.
Dr Mohammed Al Falahi, secretary-general of the ERC, said the projects fell within the UAE’s humanitarian efforts in the archipelago nation, off the east coast of Africa, to deliver development goals and provide basic services.
About half of the country’s 850,000 population live below the international poverty line, surviving on less than $1.25 a day, with the nation ranking in the lowest quartile on the human development index that determines life expectancy, education and per capita income.
Dr Yousef thanked the UAE’s leadership and its people for their efforts to improve the humanitarian conditions in the Comoros.
