Abu Dhabi, (IINA) - The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has delivered humanitarian and relief assistance to 91,987 families (643,909 persons) in the governorate of Aden and surrounding cities in Yemen, WAM reported.
The ERC distributed 77,987 tons of food packages to poor families in the governorate of Aden and 7,500 food packages to citizens in Bab Al Mandab. In the governorate of Shabwah, the ERC relief team delivered food supplies to 5,000 families and 1,500 food boxes to families in the Abyan city.
ERC said that the UAE's major relief agency sent nine aid ships to Yemen before the liberation of Aden and three others afterward. The ships were loaded with 18,322 tons of miscellaneous food items, equipment, and machines for maintenance and reconstruction of public facilities in the governorate of Aden.
Additionally, the ERC sent a land convoy of 85 trucks, carrying 31,000 food packages, through Saudi borders, while two planes delivered 103 tons of food supplies and school bags.
The ninth ship carried miscellaneous food materials, clothes, fuel, medical equipment, water pumps, generators, educational and health supplies, and 14 trucks. The ERC team is currently working on maintaining and rehabilitating the sewer network.
The gross value of the dispatched relief assistance stood at AED63 million ($17.2 million approximately).
In education, the ERC team is currently rebuilding 154 schools in Aden, it had finished works on more than 64 schools, which are now ready to welcome students. Stationeries were distributed to students, who had already started their classes.
The total cost of maintenance and reconstruction of schools reached AED81.3 million ($22.1 million approximately).
Within the UAE's efforts to end disruption in electricity power supplies and qualify the electricity sector, the ERC has allocated AED220 million ($60 million) to maintain and operate power stations in the Governorate of Aden and deliver generators to these stations from the UAE directly. Fifty-four new generators will be purchased to qualify the Aden power transmission network. Life, business and economic and trade activities have begun to return to normalcy as operating capacity in power stations in Aden has reached 90 percent now.
Regarding the sanitary sewer system, the report indicated that the ERC is spending AED6 million ($1.6 million) to qualify the network in Aden. Another AED4.5 million ($1.2 million) has been earmarked to purchase trucks, 600 waste collection containers, and 16 garbage trucks.
Concerning the health sector, the ERC said it would spend AED35 million ($9.5 million) to rebuild and rehabilitate the Al-Joumhouria Hospital and its Dialysis Centre as well as the Khalifa bin Zayed Hospital and Basuhaib Hospital.
Three centers for reproductive health will also be renovated, equipped and furnished at AED4 million ($1.1 million). AED7 million ($1.9 million) were allocated for maintaining nine other centers for healthcare. Moreover, AED2 million ($544.520) for maintaining medical warehouses and health centers in Khormaksar.
The total budget for health projects in Aden is estimated at AED48.5 million ($13.2 million).
Additionally, AED4 million ($1.1 million) were allocated to purchase medicines for cancer and kidney patients, and AED5 million ($1.4 million) to acquire ambulances and medicine transportation trucks. Health assistance in Aden stood at AED9 million ($2.5 million).
The Restore Hope Hospital was recently rehabilitated by the ERC in the Directorate of Ramah. The project is of particular importance as it lies in the midst of the desert directorates and on the international highway that links Yemen with the GCC countries.
ERC is also working to repair the Corniche in Aden at a cost of AED4 million ($1.1 million) and eight gardens at a cost of AED16 million ($4.4 million).
Socially, the ERC has organized three entertainment festival for children and families at a total cost of AED45,000, and AED15,000 ($4,000) each.
Social assistance programs in Aden which include AED150,000 ($40,000) for sacrificial meat, AED40,000 ($10,890) for Eid clothing, and AED40,000 for Eid clothing to special-needs persons. The gross value of the social assistance stood at AED275,000 ($75,000 approximately).
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