Bamako, Mali - The Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation opened the Zayed College for Economic and Legal Studies was opened in Bamako, Mali.
With a total cost of US$ 6 million including its endowment fund, the new college will provide higher education opportunities for low-income Malian students, in particular graduates of Arabic language institutes, according to Salim Obaid Al-Dhaheri, Director General of the foundation.
The college which will also contribute to higher education in West African countries is part of the Foundation's Africa operations which target the needy and underprivileged communities, he added.
Al-Dhaheri said the project was achieved thanks to the top UAE leadership, namely President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, H.H General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
He added that the project was continuously followed up on by H.H Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation.
The Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, named after the UAE founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed, is funding other projects in Africa. These include digging 1,000 water wells in ten countries which face drought, namely Somalia, Mali , Niger, Chad, Mauritania, Eritrea, Djibouti, Sudan, Ethiopia, (Ogadin region) and Kenyan-Somali border areas.
The Foundation is set to dig 65 more wells in the country's remote and underdeveloped areas according to an agreement with Malian senior officials, he noted. - Emirates News Agency, WAM
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