During the last quarter of 2021, 20.6 million dirhams of humanitarian aid given from Dar Al Ber to the needy
01/24/2022
The Dar Al Ber Society announced spending 20,631,929 million dirhams in humanitarian aid during the last quarter of the last year of 2021, through its branches spread across the Emirates, benefiting 5,363 cases, from 41 nationalities around the world.
Dr. Muhammad Suhail Al Muhairi, CEO and Managing Director of Dar Al Ber Society, stressed the society’s consistent approach and policy, which is to pay full attention to internal humanitarian affairs, by making all possible efforts to provide assistance to the needy, afflicted and sick within the UAE, in application of the concept of the 'the closest take priority for assistance' and in order to activate the national concepts of the Dar Al Ber Society, and in line with the national dimension of Emirati charitable and humanitarian work, and to ease the burdens on the state.
Al Muhairi expressed Dar Al Ber Society's deep thanks and appreciation to the donors and shareholders in supporting its various humanitarian projects and charitable initiatives within the country, which enable it to help needy social segments and to extend a helping hand and charity to people with low income in various emirates. Providing them their needs and alleviating their suffering, in order to consolidate the values of social solidarity and for the strengthening of national cohesion, which is an implementation of the teachings and values of our true religion and in response to the policy and vision of our country and the directives of our wise leadership.
Yousef Abdullah Al-Yateem, Assistant CEO of the Zakat and Community Development Sector, said: "The humanitarian aid inside the UAE included 7 avenues in the various fields of life, namely, therapeutic aid, which is intended to pay the costs of treating patients who are financially unable to pay, benefiting 69 patients, to a value of 1,250,296 million dirhams, and study aid, directed to students unable to pay their tuition fees, in schools and universities which benefited 771 students, at a cost of 7,071,695 million, also paying the rent of housing for 773 needy families at a cost of 7,474,938 million dirhams."
Al-Yateem added: "The internal aid during the last three months of last year included social assistance, which cost 4,321,060 million and was given into 445 families. The 'Feeding Program', through which the Society provided meals to the category of workers in construction sites and labour camps, to a total cost of 18,940 thousand dirhams and the project of sacrifices, by which the meat benefited 1,200 eligible cases, at a value of 261,000 dirhams.