Afghan girls cycling and robotics teams arrive in United Arab Emirates

Forty-one Afghan evacuees arrived to the UAE from Tajikistan connected Monday, among them members of the Afghan girls’ cycling and robotics teams, arsenic good arsenic quality rights activists and their families.

The evacuees are being hosted temporarily astatine the Emirates Humanitarian City successful Abu Dhabi, wherever they volition “receive high-quality housing, sanitation, health, and nutrient services to guarantee their welfare,” according to a UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation statement.

The evacuation process was facilitated by an Israeli NGO, IsraAID, which coordinated the Afghan evacuee’s introduction into Tajikistan from Kabul and onward departure to the UAE.

According to Yotam Politzer, CEO of IsraAid, the evacuation cognition is ‘the archetypal associated humanitarian ngo betwixt the UAE and Israel.”

The UAE has evacuated astir 40,000 Afghans since the opening of August, according to the MOFAIC statement, adding that astir 9,000 evacuees are presently hosted successful Abu Dhabi.