Informally, the axiom of choice says that we can choose one element out from any set (if I am right).
However, I dont understand why it is needed stated for a collection of disjoint sets (so that for each set we can choose one element out)?
I think the ability to choose out element from any one set is enough to state the axiom. Then it should be true when the set in in a collection of set (even infinite number of sets).
For picking an element from a single (non-empty) set you do not need the AoC. If you have a set from which you can't pick out any elements, then by definition (and the axiom of extensionality) what you have is the empty set.
However, formally, you can only pick out elements from finitely many sets, if you do it one by one. The power of the AoC lies in the fact that it allows you to pick elements (even if the selection happens seemingly one-by-one) from any collection of (non-empty) sets, as long as the collection itself is a set.