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DUBAI, 8th September, 2025 (WAM) - Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, Dubai Humanitarian has dispatched an exigency airlift to Afghanistan successful effect to the devastating earthquake that struck the state earlier past week.
Organised successful collaboration with members of the humanitarian assemblage successful Dubai Humanitarian, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (WFP/UNHRD), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the craft departed Dubai this greeting connected a B747 freighter, bound for Kabul.
The consignment includes astir 84 metric tonnes of captious alleviation supplies specified arsenic aesculapian items, structure materials, and different exigency aid, valued astatine implicit $929,500 (AED3.4 million). The shipment is expected to enactment astir 730,000 individuals affected by the earthy disaster.
Giuseppe Saba, CEO and Board Member of Dubai Humanitarian, said: "Dubai Humanitarian enables organisations to enactment swiftly and efficaciously erstwhile disasters strike. Following the earthquake, we promptly coordinated with our members, including planetary humanitarian organisations and agencies, to measure tract needs and prioritise the mentation of indispensable alleviation items.
This airlift reflects our corporate committedness to basal with the radical of Afghanistan successful their clip of need. Guided by the imaginativeness of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, we proceed to fortify Dubai's relation arsenic a planetary hub for preparedness and response, ensuring that planetary alleviation partners tin enactment unneurotic successful the look of earthy and humanitarian crises. This ngo is simply a testament to the UAE's enduring committedness to its humanitarian relation worldwide."
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