Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has organised a substantial blanket distribution drive to help underprivileged children survive the harsh winter season in New Delhi.

This initiative, which is the first conducted by the airline in India, was organised in association with Monyati Initiatives, an India-based non-profit social development organisation, along with Ammucare Charitable Trust.

A gleaming white DC-10 sits on the tarmac at Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi. What sets it apart from any other aircraft is the fact that it is equipped with an operating theatre, a recovery room and all manner of surgical equipment.

This is the Flying Eye Hospital which has treated more than 15 million patients worldwide for a range of eye-related diseases.

Currently on its first trip to the UAE since 1982, the hospital is looking to build long-standing relationships with medical professionals.

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• UAE aid news
• Ewa’a Shelters for Women and Children
• Yemen: Underfunded Emergency
• Workshop: Humanitarian Financing

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The convoy consists of 12 trucks, loaded with foodstuff, sheltering materials, blankets and medicines.

A delegation from the RCA, headed by the Chairman of its Sharjah Branch Khamis Al Suwaidi, will oversee tomorrow distribution of the relief materials to the displaced people, currently concentrating in Mardan and Sawabi.

The delegation members held a meeting

According to ADTA Deputy Director General for Support Services, Abdul Aziz Al-Hammadi, his outfit's participation in humanitarian and charity works and in RCA projects is part of its strategy to enhance UAE culture, values, heritage and social responsibility, adding that ADTA, in collaboration with the RCA, will launch in the near future

Sheikh Mansour's donation will enable the health facility to expand its medical services, therefore handling growing number of injured persons. - Emirates News Agency, WAM

UAE Ambassador in Cairo Ahmed Al Za'abi said the 50 truck convoy carries 300 tonnes of various essential relief supplies purchased from the Egyptian market.

Al Za'abi along with a delegation from the Red Crescent Authority had handed the assistance to the UNRWA in the presence of its director in Cairo Rola Khalfawi.

'The UAE leadership lends proper attention