The UAE will commemorate World Humanitarian Day tomorrow, reiterating its pivotal function in offering well timed help to these affected by crises worldwide. By mid-2024, the nation’s overseas assist had supported over one billion individuals, valued at greater than AED368 billion.
This 12 months’s event comes because the UAE leads worldwide efforts to assist victims of wars and conflicts, significantly the brotherly Palestinian individuals within the Gaza Strip. In keeping with United Nations experiences, Emirati assist accounted for 44 p.c of the whole worldwide help delivered to the Gaza Strip.
Thus far, the UAE has carried out 73 airdrop operations below its “Birds of Goodness” initiative, a part of “Operation Chivalrous Knight 3”. The whole assist airdropped has exceeded 3,988 tonnes, together with meals and important provides.
The UAE has additionally affirmed its unwavering dedication to supporting the brotherly Sudanese individuals, pledging US$200 million through the Excessive-Stage Humanitarian Convention for the Folks of Sudan held in Addis Ababa on 14th February 2025. This introduced the whole Emirati humanitarian assist supplied to Sudan over the previous decade to $3.5 billion.
In 2025, the UAE has additional enhanced its initiatives to ease the struggling of the Ukrainian individuals. The UAE Help Company signed a cooperation settlement with the Olena Zelenska Basis to supply further centres for foster households and orphanages with a contribution of $4.5 million.
Till final February, UAE humanitarian assist to Ukraine had benefited greater than 1.2 million individuals, together with a million girls and youngsters.
Mediation efforts undertaken by the UAE between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine have additionally resulted in 16 prisoner change operations, with a complete of 4,349 prisoners exchanged.
When it comes to pure catastrophe aid, the UAE supplied assist to the Republic of Chad in January 2025, which included 30,000 meals baskets and greater than 20,000 blankets, to assist mitigate the affect of floods in a number of areas of the nation. The UAE additionally despatched 700 tonnes of pressing meals provides to flood-affected areas in Somalia.
On the finish of March, the UAE dispatched pressing humanitarian assist to the Republic of Myanmar following an earthquake, delivering greater than 200 tonnes of meals, shelter provides and medical assist. Later, it despatched over 167 metric tonnes of important aid supplies, together with plastic tarps and tools, to assist round 80,000 individuals affected by the catastrophe.
On eleventh August, specialised groups from the UAE arrived within the Albanian capital, Tirana, to participate in pressing response operations to extinguish fires raging throughout a number of areas. The UAE contributed with plane, tools and firefighting supplies.
This 12 months has additionally seen the launch of a number of humanitarian initiatives with world affect, such because the Fathers’ Endowment marketing campaign, a part of whose proceeds will go in direction of offering healthcare and therapy for the underprivileged and supporting well being programs in much less lucky communities by growing hospitals and securing medicines.
Moreover, the UAE Help Company and the Authorities of Chad signed an settlement to construct the Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Hospital and a dialysis centre within the capital, N’Djamena, geared toward offering superior well being companies and therapeutic take care of dialysis sufferers.
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