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The UAE Government is to build a massive new housing complex for tsunami survivors in Lampaseh Aceh in Banda Aceh, an Indonesian tsunami relief website, Indonesia Relief, reported yesterday. An official from the UAE Embassy in Indonesia announced the plan. The building project will be named Khalifa City following a meeting with the Mayor of Banda Aceh, Mawardy Nurdin. The meeting which was held on Monday at the Banda Aceh mayor's office, was also attended by the head of the Banda Aceh Development Planning Board and the head of Lampaseh village, Syahrul Nagor. "Construction of Khalifa City can start as it has already received full authorisation from the UAE Ambassador Yousuf Al Sharhan," said the official. Mawardy praised the UAE for its commitment in helping rebuild Banda Aceh city. He said residents were happy with the UAE's assistance in helping rebuild their houses. He praised the UAE for living up to its promises. He said many NGOs had only built sample houses in Banda Aceh. The Khalifa City housing complex, which will consist of 700 houses is part of a humanitarian programme, which also includes 25 general medical clinics and 25 mother and child care clinics. This is in addition to the building of five orphanages and the renovation of 20 mosques, to be undertaken in Indonesia by the UAE through the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA). The housing project will cost $2.3 million (Dh8.44 million). In February this year, the chairman of the Indonesian Red Crescent Society, Muraei Mohammad, visited the UAE's RCA premises where he was received by RCA Board Chairman, Khalifa Nasir Al Suwaidi. His visit was followed by the signing of a memorandum of understanding in March between the UAE RCA and Unicef in Jakarta, Indonesia, for the construction of 25 mother and child care centres in the Nangro Aceh Darussalam province of Indonesia. The UAE ambassador to Indonesia was later received in May by the Indonesian Vice-President, Yousuf Kalla, during which their talks centred on a number of humanitarian projects to be embarked upon by the RCA, including the construction of Shaikh Khalifa City housing complex. |
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