His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, issued Decree No. 4 of 2019 establishing the Board of Trustees of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Initiatives, headed 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 and Her Highness Sheikha Maitha bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
The Board also includes HE Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, General Secretary, Initiatives of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International, Raim Bint Ibrahim Al Hashimi, Chairman of Dubai Cares, Hamid Mohammed Obaid Al Qatami, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Noor Dubai, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Library Foundation, Abdullah Al Busti, Secretary General of the Executive Council of Dubai, Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sakia Emirates Foundation, and Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Sports Creativity, And David Al Hajri, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Emirates Bank for Food and Dr. Hamad Sheikh Ahmed Al Shaibani, Managing Director of the International Institute for Tolerance, Mona Ghanem Al Marri, Secretary General of the Arab Press Award, Dr. Raja Issa Al Gurg, Chairman of Al Jalila Foundation, Ibrahim Mohammed Boumelha, Vice Chairman of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Charity and Humanitarian Affairs , Saeed Al-Attar, Assistant General Secretary of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Foundation and Jamal Bin Hawairb, CEO of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, for a three-year renewable term. This Decree shall come into effect from the date of its issuance and shall be published in the Official Gazette.
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Foundation is the largest regional charity and humanitarian organization with 33 humanitarian, developmental, community, cultural and cultural institutions benefiting more than 69 million people from 68 countries with a total expenditure of over 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 diversified 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 Al Jalila, Noor Dubai, Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charitable Foundation
And humanity.
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 the Community Empowerment Center 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 the year 2015 to be the umbrella of all the institutions and initiatives launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for over twenty years in order to coordinate and strengthen the various efforts and activating humanitarian work and its development and institutionalization to contribute to addressing the most important social and developmental challenges, Locally, regionally and internationally, and succeeded during this period in consolidating its position among the regional and international humanitarian organizations, through the issuance of many programs and activities and relief campaigns.