His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler's Representative in the Dhafra Region, President of the UAE Red Crescent Authority, has implemented the winter aid program for Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Greece and a number of other countries at a cost of 15 million dirhams. Distributors in the five countries.

He also directed the participation of a number of volunteers and volunteers from the various medical, relief, relief and logistic fields in the implementation of the winter aid program.

He said that the winter aid program is an extension of the initiatives taken by the UAE, its leadership towards the refugees since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis, and the continuation of the efforts of the UAE Red Crescent toward the Syrian refugees in their countries of residence, both inside and outside the camps. The State is concerned with the humanitarian situation of refugees and their keenness to improve them and to mitigate their consequences and their direct impact on the lives of refugees, especially women, children and vulnerable groups.

The program includes the distribution of large quantities of food and health parcels, winter clothes, heating equipment and blankets, children's supplies and other shelter materials.

For his part, the Secretary-General of the Red Crescent, Dr. Mohammed Ateeq Al-Falahi, that the winter aid program aims to provide the needs of refugees, and enhance their ability to cope with the consequences of low temperatures and weather fluctuations, and poor climatic conditions these days of the year.

The efforts of the Commission in that regard were a duty for the Syrian brothers. He pointed out that the winter aid program will continue until the end of the winter.

Al-Falahi stressed that the strategy of the Commission to support the Syrian brothers depends on the latest developments in their field and their flows to the neighboring countries, pointing out that their requirements vary in each stage from the previous one, so the Commission followed all stages and dealt with them according to the circumstances and nature of each stage.

The winter aid program in Jordan benefits 135,000 people at a cost of four million and 840 thousand dirhams. And benefiting from it in Lebanon 54 thousand people, the cost of two million and 210 thousand dirhams. The Commission has allocated a large part of the assistance to refugees in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, which witnessed large inflows of displaced from Iraqi cities, as well as Syrian refugees in the region. The plan covers the winter needs of 75,000 people in Erbil, Arbid, Qusuta, Korkosk, Dar Shukran, Basrama, Nakhri and Quelan, at a cost of AED 2,300,000, as well as in Greece, especially in the UAE Red Crescent camps in Ritsona and Larissa. Other camps scattered on the Greek scene. The program benefits from 100,000 refugees in Greece, worth 2 million dirhams, and 50,000 refugees in Egypt, at a cost of one million dirhams. A total of 586,000 people are also benefiting from the winter aid program in a number of other neighboring countries, which are expected to be affected by cold and frosts, at a cost of AED 3,560,000.

The strategy of supporting the Syrian brothers depends on the latest developments in their field.