She presented the results of her work at the United Nations Forum in New York
"Mohammed bin Rashid Global Initiatives" implements humanitarian works worth 6.9 billion dirhams within 5 years
The country's delegation participating in the United Nations High-level Political Forum.
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Saeed Al-Attar: “Meeting basic needs contributes to promoting stability and peace and renewing hope for individuals and societies.”
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The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, at the headquarters of the Permanent Mission of the UAE to the United Nations in New York, presented its comprehensive humanitarian achievements and its international participation over the past years in various axes of spreading education and knowledge, relief and humanitarian aid, empowering communities, innovation, future foresight and health care, during an event Parallel to the participation of the country's delegation in the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, after the institution's public spending during the past five years amounted to 6.9 billion dirhams and had a positive impact on the lives of tens of millions around the world.
The delegation of the participating Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives reviewed its projects in the education sector, for which initiatives during the past five years were allocated 2.1 billion dirhams, the results of its business report for the year 2021. The lives of 91 million people in 97 countries.
The Deputy Permanent Representative of the UAE to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Mohammed Abu Shehab, gave the opening speech in which he presented the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation and introduced the participants to the general framework of its humanitarian work around the world.
The participants were briefed on the activities of 30 institutions and initiatives affiliated with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, and their international participations that support the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030, which are fully compatible with the foundation’s five main axes of humanitarian and relief aid, health care and disease control. Spreading education and knowledge, innovating the future and leadership, and empowering communities, by focusing on the initiatives to combat hunger and promote education implemented by the Foundation, foremost of which is the free e-learning “Madrasa” platform, and the “Digital School” initiative aimed at empowering students in remote and developing areas, refugee and displacement camps, And a series of food feeding initiatives, which included “10 million meals,” “100 million meals,” and the “Billion Meals” initiative, which reached the needy in more than 50 countries.
The Assistant Secretary-General of the Foundation, Saeed Al Eter, emphasized the global role played by the initiatives and projects implemented by the Foundation over the years in dozens of less fortunate countries and communities around the world, pointing to the set of qualitative strategic partnerships held by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives with affiliated international organizations. of the United Nations to promote charitable, humanitarian and community work.
He added that the Foundation constitutes an umbrella for dozens of charitable and humanitarian institutions sponsored by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, for decades, within a vision based on the institutionalization of humanitarian and community work, building a work system based on unifying capabilities, and meeting The basic needs of societies that contribute directly and effectively to promoting stability and peace and creating and renewing hope for individuals and societies.
The United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the main platform of the United Nations on sustainable development.
Since its establishment in 2012, it has played a pivotal role in monitoring and reviewing progress in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level.
The participating delegation reviewed the prominent global efforts of the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Initiatives and its prominent participation in achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals, where the total humanitarian and relief assistance provided during 2021 amounted to 417 million dirhams, an increase of 35 million dirhams from 2020, in which it recorded about 382 million dirhams. dirhams.
The number of beneficiaries of the humanitarian and relief aid axis reached 22.9 million people.
The International Humanitarian City, the Emirates Food Bank, the Mohammed bin Rashid Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation, the Emirates Water Foundation, and the Mohammed bin Rashid International Center for Endowment and Endowment Consultation contribute under this axis.
With the growing challenge of hunger and malnutrition that threatens more than 800 million people, and the escalation of food security crises, over the past three years, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives launched a series of campaigns to provide food support, benefiting millions of individuals and families in need, the needy, refugees, displaced people and those affected by disasters. crises in more than 50 countries.
Within the context of health care and disease control, which is the third axis within the United Nations sustainable development goals, the member of the Board of Trustees and CEO of Noor Dubai Foundation, Dr. Manal Taryam, reviewed the total spending of the Foundation on dozens of initiatives and therapeutic and preventive campaigns, which amounted to 51.2 million dirhams during the year 2021, Its direct impact has reached 15 million people.
As for the axis of spreading education and knowledge, which fully aligns with the fourth goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030, the Deputy Minister of Cabinet Affairs for Strategic Affairs, Huda Al-Hashemi, a member of the Board of Directors of the Digital School, reviewed the Foundation’s efforts in this axis, highlighting the importance of education The digital school is accelerating the achievement of the fourth goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in providing education and the UAE’s experience in digital education and its development, leading to the digital school initiative.
In the axis of empowering communities, the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, reviewed with the Dean of the Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government, Professor Raed Al-Awamleh, the global efforts of the Foundation and its participation, which, according to the business report for the year 2021, amounted to about 88.7 million dirhams, and the number of beneficiaries reached 2.1 million people. around the world.
For his part, the CEO of the Dubai Future Foundation, Khalfan Belhoul, reviewed some of the foundation's initiatives within the axis of future innovation and leadership, highlighting the efforts of the Museum of the Future in the field of sustainability, which comes in the context of implementing the directives of the UAE leadership in dealing with sustainability challenges, stressing The UAE, based on its awareness of the pivotal role that international partnerships play in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, has recorded, over 50 years of its history, a track record of qualitative partnerships with international organizations to coordinate comprehensive response efforts to existing and emerging challenges.
The Vice-Chairman of the UAE National Committee for Sustainable Development Goals, Abdullah Lootah, presented a set of outputs of the Foundation’s work report, which, despite the logistical and technical challenges imposed by the “Covid-19” pandemic, succeeded in reaching an unprecedented number of beneficiaries compared to previous years, while its projects achieved Record participation of volunteers, who in 2021 numbered approximately 145,000 volunteers in various projects and programs of the humanitarian and development foundation.
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