Flood -affected families in Mahrah received fist installment of compensations
The Source: sabanews.net - 30/07/2009
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Fund of Reconstructing Hadramout and Mahrah governorates - hit by flooding last October of 2008- launched on Thursday a fist phase of paying compensations for flood -affected people in Mahrah governorate. Executive director Abdullah Mutafi told Saba that the fund would launch the first phase of paying compensations for the affected people in coastal regions of Hadramout at sum of YR 135 million.The fund has paid first installment to the affected families in district of valley of Hadramout at amount of YR700 million, Mutafi said.He made it clear that the fund was working to rebuild damaged houses by setting up new housing units for the affected families, calling on all concerned bodies to cooperate with the fund to do that.He added that the fund would hand over designs of lands to the UAE side to start works of constructing the UAE promised housing units.Last May, Yemen and United Arab Emirates signed a memo of understanding to build 1000 housing units for the flood-affected people in the two governorates.The memo was signed by Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Abdul-Karim al-Arhabi and Member of Board of Directors of Emirates Red Crescent Society Ali al-Nasseri at the Planning Ministry.After signing the memo, al-Arhabi praised the UAE leadership's initiative to fund the housing unit construction in the eastern provinces of Hadramout and Mahrah that were hi by rainstorm last October 2008, indicating that the recent initiative comes within the frame of the rooted brotherly ties between Yemen and UAE.
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