UAE Charity Sends Food for Rohingyas

4 March 2013

The Khalifa bin Zayed Humanitarian Foundation, a UAE-based charity, has sent 2,600 tons of food Burma for delivery to Muslim Rohingyas displaced by last year’s communal clashes in Arakan State, reports the Emirati state news agency Wam. It is the third and final phase of an emergency relief project that has seen 5,200 tons of relief items delivered to the State. According to the report, about 850,000 people have benefited from the relief parcels. The project was launched under the directive of UAE President Sheikh Khalifa.