It begins at the beginning of Ramadan and continues until the goal is achieved

Mohammed bin Rashid launches the "One Billion Meals" campaign in solidarity with the less fortunate

• The previous Ramadan campaign distributed 220 million meals.

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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, stressed that providing a food safety net for the poor and hungry is a moral responsibility, and a humanitarian commitment from the UAE to the world.

This came during His Highness’ announcement of the launch of the “One Billion Meals” initiative, the largest in the region, to provide food support for up to one billion meals to the poor and hungry in 50 countries, starting from the first of the blessed month of Ramadan, and to maintain the qualitative results achieved by the previous Ramadan campaign, which distributed 220 million A meal, where the number will be completed, up to one billion meals, and contribute to the fight against hunger and malnutrition in the world, especially among vulnerable groups of women and children, refugees and displaced persons, and victims of disasters and crises. And his neighbor is hungry.”

His Highness said in a tweet on Twitter that the campaign will continue for the coming years, until its goal is achieved.

He added, "800 million people suffer from hunger around the world... Our humanity and religion push us to extend a helping hand."

The "Billion Meals" initiative, organized by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, aims to support the most needy groups in the world by providing food support of all kinds to the poor and needy, within the spirit of the holy month, which confirms that the best charity is feeding food.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said: "The best of charity is to feed food... and the best of peoples who think of others... and our country is preserved by the good that we do."

On the message of the "One Billion Meals" initiative, His Highness said: "Our goal is one billion meals... and to deliver one billion humanitarian messages from the UAE to the world."

On the expansion of the initiative, ways to confront hunger throughout the year, His Highness said, "The world is going through challenges in the field of providing food security for humans... and our mission is to support our brothers in humanity, to save them from hunger."

The initiative, the largest of its kind in the region, seeks to provide one billion meals in 50 countries, and to maintain the results achieved by the "100 million meals" campaign, in distributing 220 million meals, as the number will be completed to reach one billion meals, while supporting the "Billion Meals" initiative. » Achieving the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations for the year 2030, including the goal of ending hunger in the world.

The campaign comes at a time when the challenge of hunger, malnutrition and related diseases causes a child to lose his life every 10 seconds, and 25,000 people die every day, including 10,000 children, while 800 million people around the world go to bed hungry every day, and 52 million people suffer in The Middle East and North Africa region suffers from some form of hunger or malnutrition, mostly women and children.

This comes after completing the "100 Million Meals Campaign", to feed food in the Arab world, Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, on the eve of the start of the blessed month of Ramadan last year, and organized by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives. Achieving its goals, in cooperation with the World Food Programme, the Regional Food Banks Network, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charitable and Humanitarian Establishment, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Emirates Food Bank. The "Dar Al Ber Society", the "Dubai Charitable Society", and the charitable, humanitarian and social work institutions in the countries that were included.

The “100 Million Meals” campaign included many countries in the region and the world, including Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Sudan, Yemen, Tunisia, Iraq, Egypt, Kosovo, Brazil, Benin, Burundi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Angola, Sierra Leone, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, emphasizing the values ​​of giving that secures The people of the Emirates, without distinction between race, religion or geographical area.

Teams from the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives followed up on distribution operations in a number of countries and regions covered by the campaign, to ensure optimal coordination of efforts with partners, and to speed up the processes of reaching the campaign's beneficiaries to the fullest.

The field visits of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives teams included a number of refugee and displaced camps, and areas of the less fortunate, in coordination with the competent authorities, the relevant authorities and international and regional organizations, such as the World Food Program, food banks and programs operating in refugee camps in Jordan and Ghana.

The roles of the central institutions involved in distribution operations for the 100 million meals campaign were complemented, as the network of regional food banks with distribution operations, within the “100 million meals” campaign, reached 121 million meals in the countries covered by the network within the “100 million meals” campaign.

As for the World Food Program of the United Nations, it reached distributions within the campaign to the less fortunate, refugees and displaced persons, distributing the equivalent of 56 million meals in various regions, and refugee and displacement camps, in which it worked with the "100 Million Meals" campaign.

Meanwhile, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment distributed the equivalent of 6.3 million meals in the countries in which it worked to contribute to the distribution of meals for the "100 million meals" campaign.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees distributed the equivalent of eight million meals in a number of countries, which undertook the distribution of meals for the "100 Million Meals" campaign.

The remaining meals were distributed, in cooperation with the other partners of the "100 Million Meals Campaign" in the various 47 countries included in the distribution operations.

The series had started in Ramadan 2020 with the “10 Million Meals” campaign, which was a direct response to the repercussions of the “Covid-19” pandemic challenge on the vulnerable and lower-income groups, and at that time it constituted a lifeline for many, and a message of comprehensive societal solidarity in the UAE with individuals and families who They lost their sources of income, due to the conditions and circumstances imposed by the global epidemic.

The initiative, which opens the door to participation for all, whether individuals or institutions, is a sustainable option to support the most needy, and those suffering from malnutrition, by providing open means of participation and donation until achieving its final goal.

The campaign, the largest of its kind in the region, stimulates the values ​​of giving and giving, extending a helping hand and charitable and humanitarian work to individuals and institutions in the UAE and the world by focusing on the concept of sustainable community financing, to provide food support and elements of food security for the most needy groups, and open the door for participation to all, whether by donations or Through media, logistical and field support in the areas you will cover.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives

The “Billion Meals” campaign represents the latest global initiatives of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, which today includes dozens of initiatives and institutions that implement charitable and humanitarian programs around the world, within five main axes, namely humanitarian and relief aid, health care and disease control, and the dissemination of education and knowledge. Creating the future and leadership, and empowering societies, in a way that supports institutional humanitarian work, achieves its sustainability, expands its positive impact, establishes a culture of hope in the region and the world, and contributes to achieving the desired development for a better future.

Mohamed Ben Rached:

• "Our goal is one billion meals... and delivering one billion humanitarian messages from the UAE to the world."

• "Providing a food safety net for the poor and the hungry is a moral responsibility, and a humanitarian commitment from the Emirates to the world."

• "The world is going through challenges in providing food security for humans... Our mission is to support our brothers in humanity to save them from hunger."

• “The campaign comes as a continuation of the campaigns (10 million meals) and (100 million meals), which were launched in the past two years, and represent continuous solidarity from the UAE, to provide food aid to those who need help.”

• 25,000 people die every day due to starvation, including 10,000 children.

• 52 million people in the Middle East and North Africa suffer from hunger or malnutrition, most of them women and children.

• 800 million people around the world go to bed hungry every day.

"Dubai Charity" supports "one billion meals" with one million dirhams

The Secretary-General of the Dubai Charitable Society, Khaled Al-Olama, announced that the association would provide one million dirhams for the benefit of the campaign, stressing that “this participation is in line with the programs and plans of the association to provide food to the needy, as it is a list of basic human needs, especially in these circumstances created by global conditions and the Corona pandemic. on different countries of the world, economically, socially and healthily.

He said: "The association's donation of one million dirhams to the campaign to provide one billion meals to the poor and needy around the world, provides the opportunity to participate in providing aid and assistance with food rations to the less fortunate communities in obtaining what meets their daily needs of food, which is the backbone of life for them, knowing that feeding food to the needy within The state and abroad, is a fixed item in the association’s programs, and one of the most prominent and most important programs that we constantly seek to develop and expand the base of beneficiaries, either by providing meals or basic foodstuffs that needy families need.

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