MoI Committee views "Camel jockey" projects in Pakistan

Wednesday 22 December 2010:

MoI Committee views "Camel jockey" projects in Pakistan

Wednesday 22 December 2010: MoI Special Committee delegation left the country yesterday, Tuesday fro Pakistan, to follow up compensation and rehabilitation projects of underage camel jockeys, who participated in camel races in the past.

The visit comes in response to the directives of the Higher Leadership, in order to inspect the project executed by the UAE for their rehabilitation and integration into their local communities and improve their living conditions, in coordination with the UNICEF, at Lahore, Raheem Khan and Putan in Pakistan. This visit followed similar visits to Bangladesh, Sudan and Mauritania, where the files of underage jockey issues had been closed for good.

The delegation will meet with senior Pakistani officials to ensure that all former underage camel jockeys had received their financial entitlements. They will also tour and inspect health care centers, drinking water networks and projects which generate income for them. The Committee members will also visit a number of those children families to view their living conditions and talk to their parents.

Major General Nasser Al Awadhi Al Minhali, MoI Assistant Undersecretary for Naturalization, Residency and Ports and Chairman of the Committee, said "This visit comes in response to the directives of the Higher Leadership to follow up the file of underage camel jockeys and to inspect the projects executed by the UAE in Pakistan, Sudan, Mauritania and Bangladesh, in order to rehabilitate and integrate them into their communities, and improve their living conditions.

Al Minhali has affirmed that the UAE has dealt with the issue of underage camel jockeys in a humanitarian way, supported the projects which protect them and fulfilled all its obligations in collaboration with the UNICEF.