His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, issued a decree appointing the Board of Trustees of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Initiatives Foundation, chaired by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, HH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Her Highness Sheikha Maitha bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum .
The Council also includes:
General of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Foundation, Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Chairman of Dubai Cares, Reem Bint Ibrahim Al Hashemi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Noor Dubai, Hamid Mohammed Obaid Al Qatami, Mohammed Al Murr, Secretary General of the Executive Council of Dubai, Abdullah Al Basti, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Saqaya Emirates Foundation, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Sports Innovation, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Emirates Food Bank, Daoud Al Hajeri, The International Institute for Tolerance, Dr. Hamad Sheikh Ahmed Al Shaibani, the Secretary General of the Arab Press Award, Mona Ghanem Al Marri, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Al Jalila Foundation, Dr. Raja Issa Al Gurg, and the Vice Chairman of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Charitable and Humanitarian Activities. , Mohammed Mohammed Boumelha, Assistant General Secretary of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Enterprises, Saeed Al-Attar and CEO, Mohammed bin Ruwaid Al Maktoum Knowledge Company, Jamal Bin Huwairib, for a three-year renewable term.
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Initiatives Foundation, the largest regional charity and humanitarian organization, includes 33 humanitarian, developmental, community, cultural and cultural institutions benefiting more than 69 million people from 68 countries with expenditures exceeding AED 1.8 billion. 2017.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's global initiatives are divided into five main areas: humanitarian and relief assistance, health care and disease control, education and knowledge dissemination, innovation of the future, leadership and community empowerment.
Knowledge and educational initiatives have grown to reach AED 634 million, benefiting more than 50 million people through the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, Dubai Cares, the Arab Reading Challenge, Al Jalila Research Center, Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government and others.
Health care and disease control initiatives have reached AED 477 million, benefiting 7.9 million people; through various institutions benefiting millions of people around the world, including the Al Jalila Foundation, Noor Dubai and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation.
Humanitarian and relief assistance reached AED 194 million, benefiting 11.4 million people through initiatives and projects, World Humanitarian City, Emirates Bank, Emirates Food Bank and others.
The volume of spending on innovation and entrepreneurship was AED 369 million; through the Mohammed Bin Rashid Establishment for SME Development, Dubai Foundation for the Future, the One Million Arab Programmer Program and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Water Prize.
Initiatives and projects within Community Empowerment have allocated AED 129 million of total spending in initiatives such as Hopemakers, International Institute for Tolerance, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Cultural Center, Dubai International Sports Conference, Arab Strategic Forum, Arab Journalism Award and others.
The Foundation was established in 2015 as a umbrella organization for all the institutions and initiatives launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for more than twenty years to coordinate and strengthen the various efforts and activating the humanitarian work and its institutionalization to contribute to addressing the most important societal and developmental challenges locally. Regionally and internationally, and succeeded during this period in consolidating its position among regional and international humanitarian organizations, through the issuance of many programs and activities and relief campaigns.
477
Million spent on health care initiatives, benefiting 7.9 million people
1.8
Billion dirhams the size of the institution's spending and more than 69 million people benefited in 2017