(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM)) Members of the UAE Relief Team yesterday distributed humanitarian aid to 569 families of Syrian refugees in Jordan, in implementation of the initiative of H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union, GWU, Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation, FDF, and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Honorary President of the Emirates Red Crescent, to provide winter needs for the refugees.
The initiative includes the provision of food parcels, heaters, blankets and other means of heating for the protection of refugees, especially children, from the consequences of the cold winter.
The aid is being distributed in cooperation with the UAE Embassy in Amman, the Emirati Relief Team and the Jordanian Red Crescent Society, along with a number of international humanitarian organisations working in the Jordanian arena.
About 14,000 Syrian refugees inside and outside camps in Jordan will benefit from this aid.
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