Lattakia – Al-Naq’a site in Jableh city has been completely prepared and equipped to provide housing to families affected by the earthquake in the Syrian province of Lattakia.
The site includes 47 well-equipped housing units for the affected families which are selected according to priorities determined by administrative units.
The site is one of 7 others in Jableh and Lattakia cities to be prepared of this purpose successively.
This comes within the framework of the project of building 1000 housing units in 7 sites in Lattakia and Jableh cities for people affected by the earthquake within 4 months.
The project is being implemented by the UAE Red Crescent in cooperation with Lattakia Governorate.
The site was opened by Lattakia Governor Amer Hilal and Secretary-General of Emirates Red Crescent Authority Hamoud Abdullah Al-Junaibi.
In another context, Hilal and Al-Junaibi as well as Rector of Tishreen University Bassam Hasan, opened two new halls at the Faculty of Dentistry that contain 60 medical dental chairs. They also opened two new halls at the Faculty of Civil Engineering that contain 120 computers. The four halls were equipped by the Emirates Red Crescent.
The UAE will continue with its support for the Syrian people in the post-earthquake recovery stage, the Chargé d’ Affaires of the Emirates Embassy Abdul Hakim Ibrahim al-Nuaimi said, pointing out that his tour aims at inspecting the housing units and opening new halls at Tishreen University.
Lattakia’s Governor Amer Hilal, for his part, thanked the UAE for the support it has been providing to Syria, and for the efforts it has exerted during the past four months to prepare and equip “Al-Naq’a” site in Jableh city.
Hamd Mustafa