His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, introduced the annual outcomes of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Initiative’s (MBRGI) Yr in Evaluation report for 2023, throughout which MBRGI, the most important humanitarian and support organisation of its type within the area, spent a complete of AED 1.8 billion on tasks that positively impacted the lives of 111 million individuals in 105 international locations around the globe.
MBRGI’s success throughout 2023 is attributed to a rise within the variety of beneficiaries that grew by 9 million individuals in comparison with 2022, in addition to to an enlargement in its social and support programmes to cowl 105 international locations, 5 greater than final 12 months. Because of this, MBRGI has solidified its main standing as the most important regional community for humanitarian, support, improvement and social work.
The Yr in Evaluation report announcement was preceded by a gathering for MBRGI’s Board of Trustees on the Dubai Opera, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and attended by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum; Crown Prince of Dubai and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MBRGI; H.H. Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance; H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum; President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman and Chief Govt Emirates Airline and Group; H.H. Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum; Chairperson of Dubai Tradition and Arts Authority (Dubai Tradition) and Member of the Dubai Council.
The announcement itself was made throughout a particular ceremony held in the present day on the Dubai Opera, attended by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MBRGI; H.H. Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance; H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum; Chairman of the Dubai Media Council; H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum; President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman and Chief Govt Emirates Airline and Group; H.H. Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Sports activities Council; H.H. Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum; Chairperson of Dubai Tradition and Arts Authority (Dubai Tradition) and Member of the Dubai Council.
The ceremony showcased MBRGI accomplishments for 2023 and former years, and offered studies on the progress of this 12 months’s Moms’ Endowment marketing campaign and honoured its main contributors.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum stated that MBRGI has managed to achieve 111
million individuals in 105 international locations throughout 2023, thus contributing to the start of recent, inspiring chapters of their lives the place hope is a sustainable aim, and other people have a motive to try for a greater life for them and their communities.
“Each time we reach reaching somebody in want, anyplace on the planet, providing them the means and instruments to struggle poverty, illness or ignorance; we rely this as a significant win for us and for humanity as a complete.
“Our initiatives fluctuate, from support, schooling and well being to empowering communities, supporting youth and creating hope. Our aim is to assist areas resume their journey in direction of progress, whereas extending a serving to hand to underprivileged individuals.
“Our journey continues in order that our humanitarian tasks ship a message of solidarity from the UAE to the world, carrying with it the values and ideas of the Emirati individuals,” he concluded.
H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MBRGI, stated, “Guided by its
leaders’ visions and impressed by its peoples’ the Aristocracy and generosity, the UAE will all the time be a world capital for humanitarian work and a job mannequin of hope making. Within the phrases of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid; hope making is the very best expression of humanity and noble values.”
“Over 8 years since its inception, MBRGI has established the tradition of hope making within the area, turning humanitarian work right into a sustainable institutional motion and contributing to selling an environment conductive of all of the noble values on which the UAE was based. This actuality exhibits how the UAE is eager to be in inspiring instance and a optimistic affect within the lives of individuals, serving to them try for a greater tomorrow,” he added.
“MBRGI has made a tangible distinction within the lives of tens of tens of millions of individuals around the globe final 12 months, because of fixed revision and enhancements in its imaginative and prescient, targets and method. It continues to embrace new humanitarian initiatives, extending the scope and attain of its impression,” he concluded.
Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Secretary-Basic
of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Initiatives (MBRGI), stated, “MBRGI continues to report new accomplishments by way of complete spending and variety of beneficiaries around the globe, in keeping with the imaginative and prescient of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for investing all sources, experience and revolutionary concepts to enhance the lives of tens of tens of millions of individuals, serving to them construct a greater future, and additional set up the UAE’s humanitarian position.”
“Throughout 2023, MBRGI managed to achieve 111 million individuals in 105 international locations, helped meet their wants and aspirations by increasing its sustainable tasks and rising spending, which grew by AED 400 million in comparison with 2022 throughout its 5 pillars,” he added, commending the efforts of MBRGI workers and greater than 160,000 volunteers.
The ceremony included highlights of MBRGI key tasks and galvanizing tales of beneficiaries around the globe, and offered a abstract of the Moms’ Endowment marketing campaign which goals to honour moms by establishing a AED 1 billion endowment fund to sustainably assist the schooling of tens of millions around the globe.
Throughout the ceremony, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum bestowed the “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Medal for Philanthropy” to main contributors to humanitarian efforts and charity campaigns, in acknowledgment for his or her generosity, together with their vital contributions to the Moms’ Endowment marketing campaign. Personalities honoured with this medal included P.N.C Menon, Founder and Chairman of Sobha Realty; Naresh Bhawnani, Founder and President of West Zone Group; Mirwais Azizi, Founder and Chairman of Azizi Developments and Abdul Rahim Mohammed Belghozooz Al Zarooni, Founder and Chairman of Al Zarooni Group of corporations.
H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum additionally honoured a bunch of main contributors to, and companions of the Moms’ Endowment marketing campaign together with Workers Main Basic Pilot Faris Khalaf Al Mazrouei, Abu Dhabi Police Commander-in-Chief; Mattar Al Tayer, Director-Basic and Chairman of the Board of Govt Administrators of the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai (RTA); Dr. Mahdi Al Fardan, Vice Chairman of Alfardan Group; Saeed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of Dubai Electrical energy and Water Authority (DEWA); Abdullah Al Basti, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Institution (MBRHC); Lieutenant Basic Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Chairman Board of Trustees of the Saeed Ahmed Lootah Charity Basis; Yahya Saeed Lootah, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Saeed Ahmed Lootah Charity Basis; Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Chairman and CEO of DP World; Huda Al Rostamani; Board Member and Director at AW Rostamani Group; Rizwan Sajan, Founder and Chairman of Danube Group; Siddharth Balachandran, Govt Chairman and CEO of Buimerc Company; Atif Rahman, Founder and Chairman of ORO24 Actual Property Developments; Gheyath Mohammad Gheyath, Founder and Chairman of GINCO Group; Mohamed Ali Al Ansari, Chairman of Al Ansari Change, Dr. Abdulkader Sankari, Founding father of Abdulkader Al Sankari and Sons Group, Renuka Jagtiani, Chairwoman of Landmark Group; Farid Al Mulla; CEO of Emirates Islamic Financial institution; Yasser Sharaf, Vice President of Sharaf Group; Dr. Mohammed Suhail, CEO and Managing Director of Dar Al Ber Society; Fahad Al Hassawi, CEO of Emirates Built-in Telecommunications Firm (du); Masood Sharif, CEO of etisalat by e&; Jawaan Awaidha Suhail Awaidha Al Khaili, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Islamic Financial institution; Obaid
Maimani, Deputy Chairman of Al Waseef Group; Hazem Al Hamed, CEO of Al Saqer Property Administration; and Abdullah Al Mannai, Chairman and Managing Director of Emirates Public sale.
MBRGI’s Yr in Evaluation report displays the humanitarian, developmental and social feats completed by a number of initiatives, programmes and establishments all working underneath MBRGI throughout 2023, which helped alleviate the struggling of weak teams and impact a sustainable, complete change that aligns with MBRGI’s mission of making hope and shaping the way forward for a safer, extra steady world.
In 2023, MBRGI has boosted operational effectivity and useful resource optimization, rising the variety of beneficiaries to 111 million individuals and its spending to AED 1.8 billion in comparison with AED 1.4 billion in 2022. Its tasks attracted 160,547 volunteers becoming a member of arms with its 1,028 workers, in comparison with 150,266 volunteers in 2022.
To encourage and encourage energetic participation in humanitarian and charity work, MBRGI offered awards and prizes with a complete worth of AED 25.1 million
throughout 2023, in comparison with AED 18.4 million in 2022.
MBRGI operates over 30 establishments and initiatives that implement its programmes throughout 5 key pillars: Humanitarian Support & Aid, Healthcare & Illness Management, Spreading Schooling & Data, Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Empowering Communities.
In 2023, MBRGI’s efforts underneath the pillar of Humanitarian Support & Aid reached round 34.4 million individuals, up 4.2 million individuals from the variety of beneficiaries in 2022. Spending underneath this pillar amounted to round AED 1.1 billion, up AED 190 million in comparison with 2022.
In collaboration with regional and worldwide organisations, MBRGI launched a number of initiatives and campaigns around the globe, with a give attention to underserved communities going through the difficult realities of poverty, pure disasters and conflicts.
Campaigns and initiatives launched underneath this pillar included the ‘1 Billion Meals Endowment’ marketing campaign, which aimed to ascertain the most important sustainable meals endowment fund that will assist get rid of starvation in keeping with Sustainable Growth Targets. A large success, the marketing campaign raised a report AED 1.075 billion
from 180,000 contributors, together with His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s private contribution of actual property belongings and financial donations value AED 250 million.
Different initiatives included “Bridges of Goodness” marketing campaign to offer and reduction to victims of the Syria and Türkiye earthquake, emergency support to Sudanese displaced populations who forcibly left their houses attributable to battle in Sudan, in addition to emergency support value AED 50 million to Palestinians in Gaza who face sever humanitarian challenges.
In 2023, the Worldwide Humanitarian Metropolis (IHC) celebrated 20 years of proactive humanitarian work since its institution. Over 746 metric tonnes of support had been dispatched by IHC in 2023, benefiting over 1.5 million individuals affected by wars and pure disasters.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Institution, UAE Meals Financial institution, UAE Water Support Basis (Suqia) and the Mohammed bin Rashid International Centre for Endowment Consultancy continued to assist and contribute to MBRGI humanitarian efforts around the globe in tasks that targeted on support, meals
donations, clear water provision and different humanitarian providers all through 2023.
A key pillar of MBRGI efforts, Healthcare and Illness Management tasks give attention to containing well being issues, preventing infectious ailments and epidemics and assuaging the struggling throughout underprivileged communities.
Throughout 2023, MBRGI helped 9.4 million individuals who benefited from tasks underneath this pillar, with spending rising to AED 209 million, up AED 166.5 from 2022 spending.
Initiatives and accomplishments on this regard included Al Jalila Basis’s launch of a AED 50 million Kids’s Fund, which goals to fund the therapy of three,000 youngsters yearly on the Al Jalila Kids’s Hospital.
Different tasks in 2023 included the AED 46 million Oud Metha Residential Constructing Endowment, the proceeds of which is able to go to funding medical schooling and analysis and advancing the UAE’s healthcare sector.
Nour Dubai continued to applied its healthcare and consciousness campaigns on eye illness and blindness prevention throughout 2023, and helped present therapy to 9.1 million individuals affected by Trachoma.
Building work on the Magdi Yacoub International Coronary heart Middle continued in 2023, supported by MBRGI’s Hope Makers initiative. The Middle additionally noticed the institution of the Sheikha Latifa bint Hamdan Unit for Cardiac Catheterisation Surgical procedure, which is able to supply free therapy to underprivileged sufferers from throughout the Arab world.
Beneficiaries of tasks and initiatives underneath the pillar of Spreading Schooling & Data elevated by 7.1 million individuals in comparison with 2022, amounting to 62.2 million individuals, whereas spending elevated by AED 29 million to achieve AED 242 million.
A significant focus of MBRGI as a key human proper, schooling performs a big position in bettering high quality of life, driving financial improvement and getting ready future generations to be able to creating a greater future.
Beneath this pillar, MBRGI’s Dubai Cares has efficiently positioned schooling on high of the agenda for the Convention of the Events to the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (COP 28), in the course of the second RewirED Summit which attracted key officers and targeted on turning schooling right into a key ingredient of sustainable improvement.
Striving to realize the 4th aim of the UN Sustainable Growth Targets for ‘Good Schooling’, Dubai Cares continued to assist revolutionary schooling, in addition to technical and vocational coaching programmes, with a particular give attention to the availability of schooling amidst emergencies and extended crises. Beneficiaries of Dubai Cares tasks amounted to greater than 24 million individuals from 60 international locations by the top of 2023.
The seventh Arab Studying Problem, which concluded in October 2023, noticed the report participation of 24.8 million college students from 46 international locations, and continued to encourage a love of studying amongst college students as a way to unfold consciousness of its significance, promote values of tolerance and moderation, and create a brand new era of inventive minds.
Different achievements included the eighth Data Summit, organized by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Data Basis and the UN Growth Programme underneath the theme ‘Data Cities and the fifth Industrial Revolution’, and the Digital College’s enlargement in 2023 to profit over 108,000 college students in 8 international locations.
Spending underneath the Innovation & Entrepreneurship pillar in 2023 amounted to AED 138 million, up AED 10 million from 2022, and benefited 1.2 million individuals.
Initiatives underneath this pillar goal to cement the standing and the UAE as locations that sustain with accelerated digital transformation and assist communities make the required change wanted for a greater, sustainable future.
Achievements included the first Nice Arab Minds version introduced its first-ever winner in a bid to assist scientific and information improvements within the Arab World. Moreover, MBRGI partnered with the World Financial Discussion board to launch the Meals Innovation Hub UAE; an initiative goals to speed up and broaden the scope of improvements and applied sciences that assist sustainable meals techniques transformation.
Different achievements in 2023 included the launch of the
revamped Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Enterprise Award, and the 4th Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Water Award.
The spine of a number of MBRGI tasks and initiatives, the Empowering Communities pillar benefited 3.4 million individuals throughout 2023, in comparison with 2.3 million beneficiaries in 2022, with complete spending amounting to AED 87.2 million.
Initiatives underneath this pillar included additional efforts by the Mohammed bin Rashid College of Authorities, which graduated 5,967 individuals from its completely different programmes in 2023, launch of the Dubai Household Enterprise Administration Programme by the Mohammed bin Rashid Middle for Management Growth, the 4th version of the Arab Hope Makers initiative with obtained greater than 14,000 purposes inside 3 weeks of its launch, and the twenty first Arab Media Discussion board, which attracted 3,000 individuals together with ministers, influential media personalities, heads of main media organisations, in addition to thought leaders, intellectuals and writers.
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