IRAQ-UAE: Dubai launches massive fund-raising campaign

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Att.Editors: The following item is by the United Arab Emirates news agency (WAM)

DUBAI, Mar 25 2003 (IPS) - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Mohammed Bin Rashid Charity and Humanitarian Organization today launched a huge drive of fund-raising to support the people of Iraq.

Ibrahim Bu Melha, the organization’s Deputy Chairman, said that the drive to be conducted through Dubai Radio and television and through telephones and the Internet started at midday on Tuesday and will continue until midnight.

He said that the organization had also allocated mosques and other institutions for accepting cash and other donations. He added that the campaign was being conducted in cooperation with a number of other humanitarian organizations.

Bu Melha said that the organization had already provided 500 tons of dates to the Iraqi people.

Meanwhile, the Zayed University in Abu Dhabi today organized a cultural festival in solidarity with the Iraqi people.