UAE: 2,840 tonnes of food aid distributed to Hadramaut residents

MUKALLA / WAM

The UAE, through its humanitarian arm, the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), provided 35,144 food parcels weighing 2,840 tonnes to the residents of Hadramaut Governorate during the Year of Tolerance 2019, benefitting 175,720 people who are members of vulnerable Yemeni families.
At the end of the Year of Tolerance, the ERC distributed 100 food parcels weighing 8 tonnes, which targeted the residents of Al-Ais in Mukalla District, Hadramaut, benefitting 500 needy people.
The UAE’s provision of humanitarian aid, which continued throughout the Year of Tolerance, aimed to ease the suffering of Yemenis, under the framework of its humanitarian policy to support fraternal countries, which was established by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and followed by the country’s leadership of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The beneficiaries thanked the UAE’s leadership, government and people for their support and humanitarian gesture.

ERC distributes 114,000 food parcels in Yemen’s Red Sea Coast
During the Year of Tolerance 2019, UAE, through the ERC sent 28 tonnes of food aid on a convoy carrying 114,400 food parcels to the residents of Yemen’s Red Sea Coast.
The convoy carried comprehensive food parcels that benefitted over 400 families in the villages of Al Shazliyah, Nubat Qusais and Al Salima in Mocha District, Taiz Governorate.
Local residents expressed their happiness at receiving the aid while thanking the UAE’s leadership, government and people for supporting them.