RCA spends AED170.2 million on external programmes in H1 of 2008

Abu Dhabi -- The UAE Red Crescent Authority has spent a total amount of AED170, 283,397 on its external projects during the first half of this year. The projects include relief assistance, charity, building and development projects as well as orphan sponsorship programme.

RCA Board Chairman, Dr. Ali Abdullah Al-Ka'abi, attributed the sharp rise and the major expansion in his outfit's programmes inside and outside the UAE to the unstinting support of President H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, H.H. General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. He said the UAE leadership continued to boost the country's humanitarian role through a number of initiatives for people who suffer from various forms of deprivations, in line with the tradition of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

He said the projects were being implemented under the personal follow-up of Deputy Prime Minister and RCA Chairman, who gave the directives for more expansion in the number of beneficiaries of the RCA programmes, adding that his outfit had strongly moved into action during the first half of this year, which witnessed a lot of natural disasters in various parts of the world, particularly in Africa and Asia, where the RCA reached out to people in distress.

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