UAE Pakistan Assistance Program

May 28, 2014



The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan, UAE PAP, has announced the launch of the UAE vaccination campaign against polio in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas in Pakistan.

UAE project to vaccinate 3.6m Pakistani children

UAE campaign to vaccinate over 3m Pakistani children in three months

The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan, UAE PAP, has announced the launch of the UAE vaccination campaign against polio in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas in Pakistan.

The campaign comes in implementation of the directives and initiatives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to support the health sector in Pakistan,

The campaign, under the slogan “Health for All.. Better Future”, was launched during a press conference held in Islamabad.

During a statement at the press conference, Abdullah Khalifa Al Gafli, Director of UAE PAP, said that the launch of the UAE vaccination campaign comes as per the directives of Shaikh Khalifa to provide humanitarian and development assistance to the people of Pakistan. “It also comes as part of the initiative of General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to eradicate polio in the world.”

He pointed out that the UAE campaign is a humanitarian initiative aimed at vaccinating 3.64 million Pakistani children against polio over a period of three months — June, August and September.

Shaikh Mohammad had previously donated Dh440 million as support to the global effort to eradicate polio by 2018, with a special focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan.

This contribution is the second one to be provided by Shaikh Mohammd to deliver life-saving vaccines to children all over the world. In 2011, Shaikh Mohammad and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a strategic partnership whereby a total amount of $100 million, divided equally between the two parties, was presented for the purchase and delivery of vital vaccines for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Also, the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi in 2013 saw the announcement of the 2013-2018 Strategic Plan which aims to completely eradicate polio, which would cost the international community $5.5 billion.

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May 31, 2014


Polio vaccination campaign sponsored by Mohammad Bin Zayed

Pakistani media praises initiative

The Pakistani media, along with different social communication channels, have praised the initiative launched by General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to vaccinate children in khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and tribal areas around Fatah province in Pakistan against polio.
Media and social communication channels lauded this humanitarian initiative to protect Pakistani children against dangerous epidemics and diseases that threaten their health and well-being.

They also confirmed that it is a new humanitarian initiative which is a continuous and permanent part of the UAE’s interest in helping and protecting children to ensure them a bright future

News of the UAE’s vaccination campaign against polio was covered in 13 Pakistani newspaper, six television stations and several Pakistani radio stations, all of whom praised the UAE’s efforts and its wise leadership in providing humanitarian and development projects in all parts Pakistan.

Pakistani newspapers also quoted excerpts from the speech of Abdullah Khalifa Al Gafli, Director of the UAE project to assist Pakistan, where he explained that the UAE campaign is a humanitarian operation aimed at vaccinating 3.64 million Pakistani children against polio during a period of three months.

Al Gafli also pointed out that the vaccination campaign will be implemented in collaboration with the Pakistani military, World Health Organisation and the Pakistani Ministry of Health in the provincial governments, under the supervision and participation of specialised medical teams.

UAE project to vaccinate 3.6m Pakistani children

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June 10, 2014

First phase for polio vaccination in Pakistan
Campaign carried out in the Bara district of Khyber Agency

The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan (PAP) began carrying out the campaign to vaccinate 3.6 million children against polio in Pakistan, carried out under the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

In its first stage in the Bara district of Khyber Agency, where no vaccination campaign has been implemented since 2009, the two-day campaign last weekend resulted in positive results in covering 279 villages, providing vaccinations to 42,047 children aged from one day to five years. The campaign was carried out by 150 vaccination teams comprising volunteers, doctors and nurses who visited a total of 20,000 families, providing vaccination for their children and registering their data.

The UAE PAP praised the contributions of the Pakistani military, police and local government in ensuring the safety of the vaccination teams and supporting the team’s effort to vaccinate children. It also thanked the World Health Organisation doctors who participated in the vaccination drive. Tribe leaders in the Bara district expressed their heartfelt thanks to Shaikh Khalifa and General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, for their humanitarian directives and initiatives.

The UAE campaign is a humanitarian initiative that aims to vaccinate 3.64 million Pakistani children against polio over a period of three months from June. Shaikh Mohammad had previously donated Dh440 million as support to the global effort to eradicate polio by 2018, with a special focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan.

UAE project to vaccinate 3.6m Pakistani children

June 23, 2014

UAE to provide aid to 50,000 families in Pakistan
UAE to provide 3,550 tonnes of aid to displaced families in Bannu

The UAE Project to Aid Pakistan (UAE PAP) will begin on Wednesday the distribution of humanitarian aid and food supplies to 50,000 families in the refugee camps in Bannu at a cost of $2.5 million (Dh9.1 million).

The initiative is being carried out as per the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

In a statement issued on Monday, the UAE PAP said that the initiative is the first of its kind on the international level to provide aid to people taking refuge from conflicts taking place in the north of Waziristan. The aid will help provide the families with their food needs.

The UAE PAP pointed out that the first aid convoy will depart on Tuesday from Islamabad, and will be distributed to Pakistani families before Ramadan. The UAE PAP said that the initiative and directives of Shaikh Khalifa are in line with a solid and continuing framework to provide all necessary humanitarian aid to the needy. It is also in line with Shaikh Khalifa’s efforts to alleviate the suffering of displaced families around the world.

The UAE PAP said that 3,550 tonnes of high-quality food aid will be distributed, adding that every food basket will weigh around 71kg, and will include items such as flour, rice, dates, sugar, salt, oil, tea and lentils.

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June 21, 2014



UAE vaccinates 2.5 million Pakistani children against polio

The UAE is leading the campaign to eradicate polio by 2018 with a massive vaccination campaign in Pakistan.

Two and a half million children have already been vaccinated against the crippling disease, with a target of 3.6 million in a three-month initiative by the UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme.

In a 12-day effort this month in Pakistan’s northwestern province, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 12 tribal regions, nearly 5,000 medical teams were deployed to health centres in local communities and used mobile units to reach children in remote tribal areas. The children vaccinated were all under the age of 5.

The campaign is being made possible through a donation of Dh440 million this year by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.

Abdullah Al Ghafli, director of the assiatance programme, described the campaign as “an exceptional success”.

He said it had overcome geographical challenges that prevented previous campaigns from reaching these areas, which accounted for 95 per cent of Pakistan’s polio cases in the past six months, resulting in wider spread of the disease into other areas.

“The mass vaccination campaign is effective because it is an initiative of the UAE,” said Aysha Hassan, who is in charge of women’s health in Peshawar. “It has drawn an unprecedented response.”

The effort is being carried out with in cooperation with Pakistan’s army, its health ministry, regional governments and representatives of the World Health Organisation, which recently declared the renewed spread of polio a global health emergency. The organisation said military conflicts from Sudan to Pakistan have interrupted vaccination efforts, leading to a dangerous resurgence of the virus – particularly in Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon – that threatened to spread internationally. The number of global polio cases nearly doubled to 416 in 2013 from 223 the previous year, according to WHO figures. This year, 103 cases have been reported from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Syria, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2013, a total of 416 polio cases were reported from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria.

Polio is a highly contagious virus spread mainly by faeces, and by flies that contaminate food. It invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis in a matter of hours.

Although it can affect people of all ages, children under the age of 5 who are not yet toilet-trained are especially susceptible. Between 5 and 10 per cent of polio sufferers who are paralysed die. There is no cure.

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24 June 2014

UAE launches aid for displaced in Pakistan

The initiative is the first of its kind to bring relief to those who have fled the western region of Waziristan where military operations have started.

Food baskets to be distributed among 50,000 families

The administration of the UAE Project to Assist Pakistan (UAE PAP) has begun implementing the directives of the President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to provide urgent humanitarian aid and food supplies, valued at$2.5 million, to 50,000 displaced families in camps in Bannu district of Pakistan.

The initiative is the first of its kind to bring relief to those who have fled the western region of Waziristan where military operations have started. It is reported that more than 400,000 people fleeing violence in the region arrived in Bannu last week.

The first UAE humanitarian aid convoy is due to leave Islamabad today to reach the families tomorrow, before the start of the holy month of Ramadan. The project’s administration said the aid comes as part of the generous initiatives of the President and his continuous efforts to help the poor and needy and provide them with a respectable and decent life.

The UAE PAP said that 3,550 tonnes of food rations will be distributed in the form of 71kg food baskets, each containing various food products such as flour, rice, dates, sugar, salt, lentils, oil and tea, sufficient for one person. These aid baskets will be delivered to help protect the people from hunger and malnutrition in the immediate future.

The UAE PAP has distributed 103,000 food baskets since 2012, valued at $5.520 million, to displaced families in various districts across the country.

UAE launches aid for displaced in Pakistan

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The projects include wells, water desalination plants, tanks and pumps and building water supply systems.

UAE sets up 76 water projects in Pakistan
Projects set up to bring clean drinking water to people across provinces

In line with the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme, UAE PAP, has so far implemented more than 70 projects at a cost of more than $6.9 million (Dh25.34 million) to bring clean drinking water to people across Pakistan’s provinces.

UAE PAP said $6.97 million was spent on the 76 water projects which include digging wells, building water desalination plants, tanks and pumps and building water supply systems for tens of thousands of households in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Waziristan where locals had to travel far from their houses to get clean water.

These include 44 projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 20 in South Waziristan, in the first phase, and 12 others in Mohmand Agency and two in North Waziristan in the second phase of the UAE PAP’s water assistance plan for Pakistan.

The UAE PAP was launched in line with the directives of Shaikh Khalifa on January 12, 2011 to help Pakistan overcome the consequences of the 2010 destructive torrential rains and floods through infrastructure rehabilitation, humanitarian aid and reconstruction in the affected areas.

UAE PAP developed a plan to achieve its goals and overcome rugged geography and harsh weather conditions in the targeted areas. The plan has four main pivots for infrastructure and community development: roads and bridges, education, health and safe water supply. It also provides for additional efforts to provide humanitarian assistance for the unprivileged, poor and homeless.

The UAE PAP showcases the success of UAE’s humanitarian and development efforts to assist the people of Pakistan.

With water pollution and shortages, in remote areas in particular, causing serious public health problems for the population, UAE PAP cites malaria and hepatitis as two major public health concerns that it addresses through safe water projects in the targeted provinces.

UAE was among the founders of the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FoDP) which was launched in 2008 to extend support to Pakistan’s social and economic development. Other founding member states include Britain, France, Germany, the United States, China, the UAE, Canada, Turkey, Australia and Italy plus the United Nations and the European Union.

On August 16, 2010, the UN estimated that up to 3.5 million children were at high risk from deadly water-borne diseases in Pakistan as a result of the country’s devastating floods.

Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, “Up to 3.5 million Pakistani children are at high risk of deadly water-borne diseases, such as watery diarrhoea and dysentery. Water during the flood has been contaminated badly. There is a shortage of clean water.”

“What concerns us the most is water and health. Clean water is essential to prevent deadly water-borne diseases. Water during the flood has been contaminated badly.”

The World Health Organisation (WHO) was also preparing to assist tens of thousands of people in case of cholera, although the government has not notified the UN of any confirmed cases, he added, estimating the number at risk from such diseases was six million.

In a report released in February 2007, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said 20-40 per cent of “people in hospitals [in Pakistan] are suffering from water-borne diseases — gastroenteritis, typhoid, cholera, dysentery and other serious diseases”. The report said every third Pakistani “drinks unsafe water”.

According to a report released by Unicef in 2012, pneumonia and diarrhoea are leading killers of the world’s youngest children, accounting for 29 per cent of deaths among children under age 5 worldwide, or more than 2 million lives lost each year.

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Pakistani Minister hails UAE’s support
Tarar says UAE projects helped meet the needs of many patients

Saira Afzal Tarar, Pakistan’s Minister of State for National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, has commended the UAE leadership for their efforts and support to the health sector in Pakistan through the implementation of several health projects in different regions of the country.

During an exclusive interview with Emirates News Agency (WAM) Saira hailed the efforts to help Pakistan exerted by President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.

The Minister added that the UAE’s support for Pakistan goes back to the days of the late Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who she said was a great supporter and true friend of Pakistan.

“It was he who ordered the construction of the Shaikh Zayed Hospital in Lahore, and another in the city of Quetta. These two hospitals have contributed to meeting the needs of patients by providing treatment and medication to the people of those cities,” she said.

Tarar also thanked the UAE Government on behalf of the Pakistani Government, for the Pakistan Assistance Programme (PAP) a UAE initiative to fight polio in KPK and Waziristan, which the Minister said was a gift that was much needed in those areas.

Speaking on the Shaikha Fatima Bint Mubarak hospital that opened in North Waziristan, Saira said that the hospital was desperately needed in that area and is supplying both locals and people from across Pakistan with high-standard emergency, maternity, childcare and other medical needs.

Commenting on the World Health Organisation report, in which Pakistan was listed as the only country in the world with increasing numbers of polio cases, with 91 cases in 2013 compared with 58 children contracting the disease in 2012, she said, “It is a fact that Pakistan is the only remaining country which exports polio.”

The Minster pointed out that 90 per cent of the country is polio-free, and that the disease is now only found in Karachi, Peshawar and North Waziristan.

Pakistani Minister hails UAE’s support

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After South Wazirsitan UAE is also helping Pakistan with projects in North Waziristan.

July 12, 2014


The UAE Project to Aid Pakistan has overseen the distribution of food aid among underprivileged families in tents and neighbouring areas during the last two weeks.



UAE food aid distribution completed in Waziristan
Distribution of 30,000 food baskets ends in North Waziristan, Pakistan

In implementation of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s directives to provide urgent humanitarian and food assistance to the displaced families in Pakistan, the UAE Project to Aid Pakistan (UAE PAP) has announced the completion of the distribution of 30,000 food baskets in north Waziristan.

The UAE PAP’s field teams, in cooperation with the Pakistani Army and local authorities in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, have overseen the distribution of food aid among the underprivileged families in tents and neighbouring areas during the last two weeks. The distribution of aid comes within the UAE President’s initiative, which is the first of its kind at a global level to support the displaced people and will benefit 50,000 affected families at a total cost of $2.5 million (Dh9.18 million).

The UAE PAP announced that the gesture of Shaikh Khalifa reflects his unwavering and constant approach to provide humanitarian assistance and ensure a decent life for the needy. It also added that 3,550 tonnes of food items were prepared. Each food basket weighs 71kg and contains multiple food items sufficient for the families in the coming period.

The beneficiaries expressed their happiness at the UAE President’s initiative, which confirms the country’s keenness on alleviating their suffering. They extended their thanks and appreciation to Shaikh Khalifa.

Meanwhile, the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, in cooperation with the UAE Embassy in Afghanistan, distributed humanitarian relief among those affected by recent floods in a number of provinces in the north of Afghanistan.


The foundation’s team distributed humanitarian aid among 5,000 underprivileged families in Jowzjan and Sar-e Pol provinces from July 7 to 10.


In Jowzjan at least 1,000 families benefited from this aid.


Jowzjan provincial officials and Afghan MPs commended the efforts of the Khalifa Foundation and emphasised UAE’s important role in supporting the Afghan people.

UAE food aid distribution completed in Waziristan | GulfNews.com

August 2, 2014

UAE helps polio campaign in Pakistan
3m children vaccinated against polio

The massive UAE campaign to vaccinate three million children under the age of five against poliomyelitis (polio) in Pakistan was successful, the UAE Project to Assist Pakistan (UAE PAP) has announced.

The large-scale preventive health initiative, under the slogan Health for All - Better Future, is being carried out under the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and comes as part of the initiative of General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to eradicate polio in the world.

The campaign is a humanitarian initiative aimed at vaccinating 3.64 million Pakistani children against polio over a period of three months — June, August and September — this year.


Shaikh Mohammad had previously donated Dh440 million as a contribution in support of the global effort to eradicate polio by 2018, with special focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan. This contribution is the second one to be provided by Shaikh Mohamed for delivering life-saving vaccines to children all over the world.

UAE PAP management said that June had seen the vaccination of 3.04 million children in 23 districts in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other tribal areas in Pakistan.


It said that the overwhelming success of the campaign to reach the three million mark in the first month of the three-month initiative proves the UAE’s effective efforts, under the leadership of Shaikh Khalifa, to deliver its noble, humanitarian goals and improve the health of people and prevent diseases and epidemics.


“Shaikh Mohammad’s initiative is important for Pakistan given the fact that the targeted regions are the world’s largest and deeply plagued by polio, but indicators of significant success have emerged from the first day of the campaign,’’ UAE PAP said in a statement.


Mobile units have overcome geographical challenges that prevented previous local and international campaigns from reaching these areas, which accounted for 95 per cent of Pakistan’s polio cases in the past six months, resulting in wider spread of the disease into other areas. Mobile medical teams have ventured into difficult remote mountainous regions to deliver vaccines.


However, the UAE efforts were fruitful thanks to the good planning, perfect field implementation, concerted coordination between the UAE PAP and other stakeholders, including the Pakistani army, local and federal Pakistani health authorities, and the World Health Organisation.


Pakistan is one of three countries where polio is still categorised as an endemic viral infection. WHO warned of the polio situation in Pakistan which reported 198 cases in 2011, the highest in ten years, compared with 58 cases in 2012 and 93 in 2013. Ninety-nine cases were registered in the first seven months of the current year compared with 24 in the same period last year.

UAE helps polio campaign in Pakistan | GulfNews.com

UAE project to vaccinate 3.6m Pakistani children

Thanks UAE. We appreciate your help!

Project was for 3.6 m children it has so far covered around 5.8 million children

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August 23, 2014



The UAE vaccination campaign has exceeded the targeted sectors in 23 areas.

5m Pakistani children vaccinated against polio
UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme a huge success

The UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme announced that over 5.8 million Pakistani children were vaccinated against polio during the June and July under the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to boost the health sector’s preventive programmes in Pakistan.

The move also comes in line with the initiative of General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to eradicate polio worldwide.

The programme said the UAE vaccination campaign has been a huge success by exceeding the targeted sector in 23 areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the tribal region. It vaccinated 3.4 million children in June, and 2.38 million in July, bringing the total number of the vaccinated children to 5.87.

The administration of the programme noted that during July the vaccination was stepped up in the areas where displaced people live and the tribal region to reach out to those not vaccinated for years. It managed to vaccinate 2,3 million children under the age of six in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the tribal region.

It emphasised the importance of Shaikh Mohammad’s initiative to eradicate polio in the world’s most difficult and disease-incubator areas, adding that the initiative reflects the UAE leadership’s humanitarian support to the people of Pakistan who appreciated the UAE and its leadership for their humanitarian stance.

Earlier, the World Health Organisation warned of the danger of a polio epidemic in Pakistan, which in 2011 recorded the highest number of polio cases in 10 years, with a total of 198 cases. In 2012, a total of 58 cases were recorded, while in 2013, a total of 93 cases were recorded.

In the first seven months of this year, 99 cases were recorded, compared with 24 cases in the same period in 2013.

Pakistan is one of only three countries in the world which remain polio-endemic.

UAE project to vaccinate 3.6m Pakistani children

September 14, 2014


The administration of the UAE Project to Assist Pakistan has begun distribution of 40,000 food baskets and 7,100 tents to families affected by the seasonal floods which hit parts of Pakistan last week, killing 280 people, injuring around 500 others and negatively affecting more than 1.9 million people.

UAE assist flood victims in Pakistan
Aid distribution was carried out with the help of the Pakistani Army

The administration of the UAE Project to Assist Pakistan, UAE PAP, has begun implementing the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the orders of General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, with the follow up of Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, for the distribution of 40,000 food baskets and 7,100 tents to families affected by the seasonal floods that hit parts of Pakistan last week, killing 280 people, injuring around 500 others and negatively affecting more than 1.9 million people.

In a statement released on Sunday, the UAE PAP administration said that the move reflects the UAE leadership’s humanitarian commitment to providing support and alleviating the suffering of those facing disaster.

The statement also said that the aid distribution was carried out with the help of the Pakistani Army and National Disaster Management Authority in Pakistan.

Meanwhile, to cope with the floods, Pakistan has opened the Prime Minister’s Flood Relief Fund, seeking support from overseas Pakistanis and philanthropists.

The fund, established with immediate effect, aims at providing relief assistance to the flood-affected, according to the Pakistani Embassy in Abu Dhabi.

An official of the embassy said on Sunday that cheques, demand drafts made in favour of the Prime Minister’s Flood Relief Fund – 2014 can be submitted in person or dispatched to the Embassy of Pakistan in Abu Dhabi or the Consulate General of Pakistan in Dubai.

He said mailed donations should be addressed to the ambassador in case of the Embassy in Abu Dhabi, and the Consul General in case of Consulate General in Dubai. At present, he said, donations in kind are not being accepted.

People who want to lend a helping hand can also contact the Pakistani missions by calling on 02-4447800 and 04-3973600 and by sending emails at parepabudhabi@pakistanembassyuae.org and parepdub@pakistanconsulate.ae.

UAE orders urgent relief to Pakistan

September 20, 2014


UAE rushes relief in wake of Pakistan floods

Over 1,500 tonnes of food aid have already been distributed to displaced families

The UAE-Pakistan Assistance Programme has distributed 40,000 food baskets and 7,100 tents worth $3.1 million (Dh11.38 million) among people affected by the recent floods that ravaged a number of cities and villages in the Punjab province.

The relief operation comes in implementation of the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, with General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, also taking a keen interest in efforts to dispatch urgent humanitarian assistance to affected populations. The floods have left hundreds of thousands of families homeless.

Officials with the UAE-Pakistan Assistance Programme confirmed that the food aid comes in implementation of the directives of Shaikh Khalifa to extend humanitarian aid to the friendly people of Pakistan and alleviate suffering of the people there.

The relief efforts reflect the endeavour of the UAE’s leadership and people to extend humanitarian support during disasters, wars, epidemics and famines across the world.

The latest relief effort is being implemented in coordination with the Pakistani Army and 20,000 food baskets have already been distributed to affected people in areas across Punjab province.

Over 1,500 tonnes of food aid have already been distributed among displaced families. Each family is being given 75 kg of food aid including flour, rice, sugar, salt, lentils, cooking oil and tea. Some 7,100 tents have also been distributed to affected families.

UAE orders urgent relief to Pakistan

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