The UAE dedicates itself as the leading donor to Yemen
English - Saturday 19 March 2022 الساعة 04:04 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
The Emirates Red Crescent Authority has launched a new Ramadan humanitarian project in Yemen, the largest, under the directives of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
About 7 million and 35,000 people benefit from the Emirates Red Crescent Ramadan programs in six Yemeni governorates, and the Ramadan meal includes necessary and basic food items that meet the needs of beneficiary families throughout the holy month of Ramadan.
The Emirates Red Crescent’s programs include the governorates of Shabwa, Hadhramaut, Taiz, Hodeidah, Aden and Socotra Island, where 6,870,000 people benefit from Ramadan food and breakfast for the fasting person.
This project represents an extension of the UAE's humanitarian role and its commitment to helping the Yemeni people to overcome difficult circumstances, as it has emerged remarkably over the past years, with its active contribution to efforts to support Yemen on several fronts.
From the first moments of the war, the role of the United Arab Emirates in Yemen was not limited to the military side, which aims to restore the state from the hands of the terrorist Houthi militia, within the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia, but there is a strong Emirati humanitarian role in the field of relief, health, education, water, electricity, clothing and reconstruction.
Emirati humanitarian donors played a major role in providing relief to those affected by the war in Yemen, by operating commercial aircraft and ships to provide various relief needs. Thus, the UAE, in its participation in the war to restore legitimacy in Yemen, balanced military intervention and humanitarian action.
The UAE adopts a comprehensive humanitarian approach in supporting Yemen at various levels, humanitarian, economic and logistical, through relief operations and infrastructure projects, and the reconstruction of what was destroyed by the war.
Its humanitarian role is not limited to providing aid in terms of food and medicine, but is also devoted to helping Yemenis rebuild and reconstruct the remnants of the war, within an integrated vision that moves on balanced developmental, economic, political, social and humanitarian tracks.
Since 2015, the UAE has provided aid exceeding 6 billion US dollars, mainly supporting the humanitarian situation in Yemen, which is exacerbated every day due to Houthi terrorism, which destroyed roads, schools, hospitals, and administrative institutions. A large part of these sums were spent mainly in the health, education, water and electricity sectors to ensure the continuity of services for the Yemeni people.
This Emirati humanitarian role crystallized clearly after the restoration of Aden, as the focus was on supplying the city and neighboring areas with all the urgent needs of Yemenis, until Aden became a station for distributing humanitarian aid to the Yemeni people.
The UAE has established an air and sea bridge to transport urgent food and medical relief supplies, as well as support infrastructure to shelter those affected by events and natural conditions, and rebuild what the war has destroyed in Yemen, while UN reports ranked the UAE as the first in the world in terms of providing humanitarian aid to Yemen.
The UAE, through its humanitarian arm (the Emirates Red Crescent Authority), has contributed to the restoration of more than 360 educational facilities and provided school uniforms to more than 150,000 students, and also provided the necessary support for United Nations programs to provide food and medicine to the Yemeni people, nutritional supplements and support other sectors such as roads, water, transportation, energy and vital services.
The Emirates Red Crescent has provided hospitals and health centers in Yemen with modern equipment, in more than 110 hospitals and clinics, and has also built surgical, maternity and maternity centers, centers for people of determination, and mobile clinics.
In addition, the UAE has supported efforts to combat the emerging epidemic of Corona, with the help of the Yemeni people in this pandemic.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the UAE has not stopped periodically sending urgent medical aid and supplies to the Yemeni people.
The UAE has also provided aid in various sectors in Yemen, including education, to ensure the continued opening of schools, as it has strengthened its efforts to establish and restore hundreds of schools or rebuild them after the Houthi militias destroyed them.
The humanitarian aid provided by the UAE to Yemen is not related to the political orientations of its beneficiaries, nor the geographical location. Rather, it primarily takes into account the humanitarian aspect, which is to meet the needs of those affected by war, reduce poverty, and eradicate hunger.
Based on this humanitarian role, the UAE ranked first in the world as the largest donor of humanitarian aid during the Yemeni crisis in response to the current humanitarian conditions. It came at the forefront of the countries that responded to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, according to the data of the relevant international organizations of the United Nations.
