Dubai: A total of Dh86.1 million has been donated by individuals and organisations across the country to the UAE Water Aid Campaign (UAE Suqia) on its sixth day.
The campaign, which aims to provide clean drinking water to five million people across 60 countries, managed to raise funds that will help provide clean drinking water to 3.4 million people around the world, achieving 61 per cent of its target.
Since its launch, the project has 3,058 wells in areas that are in desperate need for water.
UAE Water Aid, was launched by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, after he realised that each year more than 3.4 million people die from water-related diseases.
The money donated to the campaign will go towards: digging wells in villages that suffer from scarce water, providing water tanks in places that have water but do not know how to use it wisely, installing pipelines in villages and building water treatment plants that will cost from Dh500,000 to Dh700,000
The donors on the sixth day included Dubai World Trade Centre, which donated Dh5 million to help provide clean drinking water to 200,000 people. Fatima Mohammad, wife of Mohammad Abdullah Ahli donated Dh100,000 to help bring clean water 4,000 people.
Ahmad Sultan Ahmad Bin Sulaiman donated Dh300,000 to help in providing clean water to 12,000 people
Dubai Contracting Company donated Dh250,000 to provide clean drinking water to 10,000 people.
The Emirates Red Crescent will be in charge of implementing the campaign through its 11 offices that are located in different parts of the world, as well as its offices that are available in its 33 embassies.
The first phase of the campaign will be implemented in Pakistan, India, Niger, Somalia, Ghana, Sudan, Indonesia, Togo, and Iraq in the first phase of the project
