A total of AED 346 million were spent on the agency’s operations in 50 countries last year to help thousands of families affected by natural disasters and conflicts. Relief operations launched by RCA in 29 countries in 2011 cost more than AED 51.6 million. Somalia, Libya and Pakistan were the major beneficiary countries of RCA’s operations. Around 417 thousand families in the UAE received a total of AED 166.6 million in assistance from RCA’s domestic humanitarian programmes, it said in a report.