DUBAI: The Ministry of Community Development (MoCD) launched the ‘Taaluf’ initiative to offer free family counselling to all UAE residents, state news agency WAM reported on Tuesday.
There will be four interactive channels providing support for families to alleviate the psychological impacts of COVID-19 during home quarantine and social distancing, MoCD said.
The initiative “focuses on interaction and dialogue to disseminate knowledge, guidance and make consultation easier and faster, reaching out to all members of the UAE community,” Assistant Under-Secretary for Social Development Hessa Tahlak said.
The private and confidential service will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Residents can reach the service through a hotline, by calling 800623 from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. from Sunday to Thursday. They can also register for video call appointments via Whatsapp on the Ministry’s website.
MoCD will also provide weekly live streams via their Instagram account to the public.
The UAE has implemented a curfew as part of the national disinfection program since March 26, people are not allowed to leave their houses without permits between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The regulation is part of the country’s efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus, as the current toll reached 611 with five deaths and 61 recoveries.
UAE offers free family counselling to support community during coronavirus crisis
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UAE offers free family counselling to support community during coronavirus crisis
- The initiative will provide support for families to alleviate the psychological impacts of COVID-19 during home quarantine and social isolation
- People can call a hotline or book video call appointments on the ministry’s website
Kurdish official says Kurds committed to deals with Damascus despite Aleppo violence
- Ahmad said that “we are committed to peace and to resolving problems through dialogue”
- She accused Syria’s authorities of “choosing the path of war” by attacking Kurdish districts in Aleppo
BEIRUT: Syria’s Kurds are committed to agreements reached with the government, a senior official from their administration told AFP on Friday, despite days of violence in the northern city of Aleppo.
The government and Kurdish forces have traded blame over who started the fighting on Tuesday, which came as they have struggled to implement a deal reached last March to merge the Kurds’ administration and military into the country’s new government.
Elham Ahmad, a senior official in the Kurdish administration in Syria’s northeast, said that “we are committed to peace and to resolving problems through dialogue. But until now, the government... does not want a solution.”
She accused Syria’s authorities of “choosing the path of war” by attacking Kurdish districts in Aleppo.
“With these attacks, the government side is seeking to put an end to the agreements that have been reached. We are committed to them and we are seeking to implement them,” she said.
The government announced a truce early Friday after days of deadly violence that has forced thousands to flee, and granted Kurdish fighters a deadline to leave two districts they control.
But the fighters were refusing to leave the Ashrafiyeh and Sheikh Maqsud areas and intended to “resist” the Syrian army encircling them, a statement by the local councils of the two neighborhoods said.
Ahmad said that “the United States is playing a mediating role... we hope they will apply pressure to reach an agreement.”
A diplomatic source told AFP on Friday that US envoy Tom Barrack was headed to Damascus.
