UAE Embassy oversees number of humanitarian projects in Lebanon

9/23/2015 5:18:15 AM

(MENAFN- Emirates News Agency (WAM))

BEIRUT 23rd September 2015 (WAM) -- The UAE Embassy in Lebanon has supervised the implementation of a number of charitable and humanitarian projects on the occasion of Eid al-Adha.

The projects include sending individuals to perform Hajj distributing Eid-al Adha clothes and providing sacrificial meat.

The humanitarian projects are being implemented by the Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable & Humanitarian Foundation the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation and the Emirates Red Crescent in cooperation with the Lebanese government bodies which include Dar Fatwa in Lebanon Orphanage House municipalities as well as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

Hamad Saeed Sultan Al Shamsi the UAE Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon said that the UAE's wise leadership gives extra attention to the implementation of charitable and humanitarian projects locally and internationally.

He added that the projects came in line with the embassy's annual programmes in Beirut to mark Eid al-Adha which includes segments of the Lebanese community Palestinian camps and Syrian refugees in various areas. The gesture also aims to provide support and aid to the underprivileged and needy segments in this holy occasion.

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