Two aid UAE aircraft arrive in Amdjarass

Two UAE aircraft have arrived in Amdjarass, Chad, carrying 19 tonnes of humanitarian and relief assistance.

The humanitarian assistance was airlifted in implementation of the directives of the UAE leadership to relieve the Sudanese refugees and support the local community in Chad as part of UAE’s efforts to improve the living and health conditions.

The shipment was received by the Emirati humanitarian team which comprises representatives from the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), the Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation and the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, in coordination with the UAE Office for the Coordination of Foreign Aid in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The assistance includes computers, stationary, school bags, more than 1,500 winter clothes and 500 blankets, sewing machines for opening a sewing workshop in order to increase the income of individuals in the city, 20 laptops, more than 1000 Qur’an copies, and 930 solar-powered smart lighting devices.

The assistance also includes pumps to complete the drilling of new wells that fall within the “underground well drilling programme”, which aims to provide drinking water to the people of villages and areas in the city and a number of water pumps for the city’s main water station.