Human Appeal International, HAI, in Ajman has approved 154 projects in nine countries, at a cost of AED2,162,193, during the first quarter of 2017.
Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdullah Al Nuaimi, Chair of the Board of Trustees of HAI, noted that these projects aim to help and provide the necessary needs of their targeted sectors outside the country, including community, educational and health development.
He added that they approved, under their community programme, some 35 projects with a value of AED1,434,345, including projects on productive families, distributing food supplies, building mosques, helping orphaned women to get married, as well as the "Charity Loaf of Bread "project, which aims to provide a daily loaf of bread to needy families in Jordan and Lebanon, and to Syrian refugee families in these countries. Thousands of families have benefit from these projects, he added.
Al Nuaimi stressed that their community projects also include providing winter heating for targeted families in countries that witness cold and freezing weather, such as Bosnia, Jordan, Lebanon and Kyrgyzstan, where heating fuel, gas cylinders, blankets and children and women’s winter clothing were distributed, as well as answering to the same needs of hundreds of Syrian refugee families in Jordan and Lebanon.
Regarding their health programme, he explained that under the framework of HAI’s work to contribute in limiting diseases that are transmitted through consuming contaminated water, especially in areas that suffer from water scarcity in Africa and Asia, HAI has provided clean and safe drinking water by digging 116 water wells in many countries, such as Senegal, Niger, India, Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan, at a cost of AED675,238.
He added that HAI, through its health programme, has organised a medical campaign to provide eye examinations for people in Bosnia, which provided prescription glasses to hundreds of children who suffer from weak vision.
Under HAI’s efforts to promote science, develop communities and provide knowledge for children in remote areas, Al Nuaimi stated that HAI has spent AED46,696 to build an educational centre for Quranic Studies in Sudan and to distribute thousands of copies of the Quran, as well as many other projects that were organised by its offices in numerous countries around the world.
Regarding its Orphan Patronage project, he said that this programme raises and cares for orphans and provides for their education, as well as health and community care for their families, by providing continuing guidance.
He added that HAI’s orphan care projects are considered to be exceptional projects in the field of international care, as HAI strives to transform orphans into beneficial people, to both themselves and their communies, by providing a quality environment to care for them. He also highlighted that HAI currently looks after 60,000 orphans within the country, as well as in other Arab and Islamic countries.

Source: WAM