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UAE RCS-CARE to boost relief services in Yemen

This was decided at a meeting held between the two organisations in the capital yesterday.

The two sides agreed on exchange of information and coordination with competent authorities at the local levels in Yemen in order to serve the vulnerable segments of the population and to provide healthcare and family upliftment programmes.

Director of CARE in Yemen Gareth Richards stressed the importance of building a global partnership to address the issues of poverty, disease, unemployment and the migration of the displaced. He pointed out that since 1992, CARE has been working in Yemen, providing relief to refugee camps, promoting literacy and women’s empowerment, and boosting the functioning of various non-government organisations.

On his part, Dr. Saleh Mousa Al-Taee, Acting Secretary-General of the UAE Red Crescent, said the organisation attaches great importance to humanitarian and charitable projects in Yemen.

He pointed out that since 1994 his organisation has been carrying out relief activities focusing on Somali refugees in Yemen.

The Red Crescent has been providing health services, medical supplies and equipment, including ambulances, to local organisations in Yemen, he said, adding that open-heart surgeries had been done, free of charge, on patients who could not afford it.

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