Dar Al Ber continues aid to low income residents

DUBAI // More than 50,000 low-income families from Umm Al Quwain have received aid from Dar Al Ber Society.

Over the past 10-years, 51,412 low income families in Umm Al Quwain received around Dh50million in aid, according to the Low-income Families Committee (LIFC) run by Dar Al Ber Society in the emirate.

The aid was distributed in a variety of ways - study allowances for 1,774 students, Dh2.9million has been given as medical assistance to 586 patients, while over Dh16million was contributed as a fixed or regular aid to almost 7,000 families.

Ali Hassan Al Assi, chairman of the LIFC said that 321 orphans and people with special needs received assistance. “About Dh1,504,000 were spent on orphans and 103 people with special needs received Dh476,000,” he said.

“The committee is grateful to all supporters of its charitable and humanitarian work,” he said, pledging that the society will keep developing its work for the benefit of low-income people.