00:00The situation in Pakistan is very bad. We have a country as big as Pakistan geographically.
00:18One third of their land is under water today. You're talking about 33 million people are
00:23being affected, over 1,000 people dead. Women, girls, children are severely affected.
00:30The UAE has always been a leader into this cause and these kind of efforts.
00:34We as Dubai Cares, we thought differently. We said, let us work closely with other NGOs
00:39here in the UAE. As a phase one, we have partnered with the UAE Red Crescent and Sharjah Charity
00:45to get volunteers to pack FMB and hygiene kits to ship them to Pakistan. We're working
00:50very closely, the three agencies, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry
00:54of Community Development. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs are working closely with the
00:58Pakistani government to tell us what are the specifications that are needed. The Ministry
01:02of Community Development are getting the volunteers also to support us. We have our own network
01:06of volunteers as well. The plan is to get everything packed, thousands of volunteers
01:11in three centres, Adnik, Expo Dubai and Expo Sharjah has also come to give us those free
01:18spaces and we're aiming to get thousands of boxes shipped immediately to Pakistan and
01:23the Pakistani government will take these boxes and distribute them to all the families that
01:27have been affected with this crisis. It's really important here to support Pakistan,
01:32being able to provide the goods they need in this very difficult situation. I'm just
01:36very, very happy and proud to be here with this amazing team and people to be able to
01:41support them in this very peculiar time for them. We're here today to give back and the
01:46UAE always put on the most amazing initiatives. If you look around, there's people from all
01:51different cultures, all different backgrounds coming together for one cause. Yeah, we saw
01:55the devastating floods in Pakistan and when we saw the initiative that the UAE and Dubai
02:01cares were putting together, we thought what better way to spend a Saturday than to come
02:06and give back and help those less fortunate. Everyone in Pakistan is suffering through
02:11the floods and I hope they all stay high and we are with them, UAE is with them in Pakistan.
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