Zayed Giving Initiative, a unique model for humanitarian work at local and international levels, has, since its inception in 2003, reached out to more than 3 million children and elderly people and conducted over 7,000 free of charge heart surgeries.
Muza Al Otaiba, member of the Initiative's Board of Trustees, said the humanitarian mission had attracted thousands of prominent doctors, specialists, consultants and surgeons from across the world who had made valuable humanitarian contributions to in Emirates volunteer medical camps.
In a short time span, she added, Zayed Giving Initiative has extended its surgical, curative and preventive programmes to several parts of the world, becoming the hope for thousands of needy patients in countries including U.A.E., Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Pakistan, Tanzania, Eritrea, Indonesia and Egypt.
The initiative has made valuable contributions to various areas of community services and volunteering including health, education, environment and culture.
Over the past few years, the initiative has attracted thousands of volunteers to reach out to millions of people in Arab and African countries who benefited from its various voluntary and humanitarian programmes.
15 civilians, including women and children, were killed and wounded due to shelling on Fallujah on Friday August.
A medical source told the reporter of the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / The bombing focused on the neighborhoods of South and Central of the City, and resulted in the killing of / 3 / civilians and wounding / 12 / others, including two children and a woman were taken to hospital for treatment .