UAE President Sheikh Zayed Al Nayan’s wife, Sheikha Fatima, has donated $1 million to build a rehabilitation center in the Palestinian city of Hebron, reported the Gulf News.
Sheikh Fatima is the chairperson of the UAE Womens Federation.
The UAE Red Crescent Society on Saturday signed an agreement on behalf of the president’s wife with the International Labor Organization (ILO) to carry out the project, the paper said.
The Sheikha Fatima Vocational Rehabilitation Center for People with Disabilities and Youth with Special Needs in Hebron will be completed within five years, an official said.
Under the agreement, the ILO will provide certain services and ensure the complex's completion with the cooperation of the Palestine Authority.
The funds will be released in four equal installments, said the paper.
The first will be made within one month of the signing of the agreement. The second will be released after the ILO submits a financial and technical progress report supported by photos and a report from the consultants indicating completion of at least 20 percent of construction.
The third installment will be paid after completion of 45 percent of construction, and the final payment will be made upon completion of at least 70 percent.
"The ILO shall employ its best efforts to ensure that the disbursement of funds for the program does not exceed the amounts deposited by the donor, including such amounts as the donor may provide in the context of any revision of the program," the agreement says.
Decades of Israeli neglect and under-allocation of funds for even minimal projects in the Occupied Territories have left the West Bank and Gaza Strip with a tattered and underdeveloped infrastructure - Albawaba.com
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