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SHARJAH / WAM
The Sharjah Social Services Department (SSSD) is keen to deliver emergency social assistance to the homes of low-income families to provide adequate support for their basic needs.
The social assistance for the emergency cases is to provide important life necessities, food, and other emergency assistance as a gift card “Al-Bashama” issued by the Sharjah Cooperative Society and provided to the needy families registered with the department for 29 cases.
Alia Al Zaabi, Director of the Social Aid Department, said, “Since the beginning of the current health crisis, the SSSD has sought to exempt families from personal attendance and only to communicate remotely to request the service to accomplish it without personal attendance, through a mechanism set for this category that takes into account the facilitation of ways and procedures followed electronically according to the applicable work systems.”
The Director of the Social Aid Department indicated that the Department is constantly updating the beneficiaries’ data, to ensure the continuity of a decent life for these families, as the number of cases reached 3,442 since the beginning of last March and until the middle of April.
The importance of updating the data lies in knowing the most important needs of the beneficiary families, and setting priorities and plans based on sound foundations.