The UAE’s President has directed humanitarian support value US$10 million to all these affected by the lethal earthquake in Colombia.
The UAE despatched the help below the directives of UAE President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, by the Emirates Worldwide Support Company.
UAE’s groups are working to ship pressing aid support, together with medical provides, meals, and shelter provides, in coordination with the related authorities in Colombia and worldwide companions.
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The UAE’s pressing response comes throughout the framework of its duties and dedication to strengthening worldwide aid efforts, and its humanitarian efforts to increase a serving to hand to pleasant international locations in occasions of disaster and pure disasters.
It additionally maintains the dedication to help these affected by numerous humanitarian crises, and its keenness to make sure that support reaches all affected teams and segments in a well timed method in a means that alleviates the repercussions of the catastrophe and helps emergency response efforts in such troublesome instances and important occasions.
Dr Tariq Ahmed Al Ameri, Chairman of the Emirates Worldwide Support Company, defined that the UAE Worldwide Support Company is working to speed up the tempo of support supply in keeping with discipline wants, contributing to assuaging the struggling of these affected on the one hand, and making certain early restoration and a speedy return to stability within the affected areas on the opposite.
The UAE not too long ago expressed its solidarity with Colombia after the earthquake that precipitated numerous deaths and accidents and precipitated severe materials injury. It additionally expressed its honest condolences and heartfelt sympathy to the households and kin of the victims, wishing a speedy restoration to the injured.
The UAE President additionally held a phone call with the President of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, throughout which he expressed his honest condolences over the victims of the earthquake in Colombia and wished a speedy restoration to all these injured.
Colombia’s earthquake rescue efforts entered what officers known as the “last section” on Wednesday, as rescuers looked for indicators of life beneath collapsed buildings earlier than the crucial first 72 hours got here to an finish.
The magnitude 7.4 quake, the strongest to hit Colombia this century, has killed 265 folks, injured greater than 3,500 and left nearly 500 lacking, in line with native authorities.
Based on official figures, greater than 11,000 dwellings have been destroyed and hundreds of households have been rendered homeless.
Inputs from AFP
