142,000 Yemeni families benefit from ERC's projects

ABU DHABI, 9th November, 2015 (WAM) -- The Emirates Red Crescent, ERC, has expanded its relief operations and humanitarian projects in the areas most affected by the developments in Yemen. More than 141,968 families benefitted from those programmes in Taez, Lahij, Abyan, Shabwa, Aden, Bab el Mandeb and al-Subaiha area. The ERC convoys arrived in those regions for the first time after the situation stabilised and calm and normalcy returned. The ERC is deemed one of the first humanitarian organisations to have arrived in these areas in such exceptional circumstances, and distributed aid to the affected people. A total of 10, 000 families in Taez, 7,500 families in Bab el Mandab, 1,900 families in Lahij, 1,500 in Abyan,10,000 in Shabwa, 109,568 families in Aden and 1,500 families in al-Subaiha area have benefitted from the assistance. In its report, the ERC said the authority's 10th ship, carrying 2,800 tonnes of various food items, arrived in Aden Port, bringing the total relief materials brought by the ERC to Yemen to about 20,000 tonnes, including the most important humanitarian needs for the Yemenis. – Emirates News Agency