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A key pillar of MBRGI efforts, Healthcare and Disease Control projects focus on

containing health problems, fighting infectious diseases and epidemics and alleviating
the suffering across underprivileged communities.

During 2023, MBRGI helped 9.4 million people who benefited from projects under this
pillar, with spending growing to AED 209 million, up AED 166.5 from 2022 spending.

Initiatives and accomplishments in this regard included Al Jalila Foundation’s launch of
a AED 50 million Children’s Fund, which aims to fund the treatment of 3,000 children
annually at the Al Jalila Children’s Hospital.

Other projects in 2023 included the AED 46 million Oud Metha

Residential Building Endowment, the proceeds of which will go to funding medical
education and research and advancing the UAE’s healthcare sector.

Nour Dubai continued to implemented its healthcare and awareness campaigns on eye
disease and blindness prevention during 2023, and helped provide treatment to 9.1
million people suffering from Trachoma

Construction work at the Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Center continued in 2023,

supported by MBRGI’s Hope Makers initiative. The Center also saw the establishment
of the Sheikha Latifa bint Hamdan Unit for Cardiac Catheterisation Surgery, which will
offer free treatment to underprivileged patients from across the Arab world.

Spreading Education & Knowledge

Beneficiaries of projects and initiatives under the pillar of Spreading Education &

Knowledge increased by 7.1 million people compared to 2022, amounting to 62.2 million
people, while spending increased by AED 29 million to reach AED 242 million.

A major focus of MBRGI as a key human right, education plays a significant role in
improving quality of life, driving economic development and preparing future
generations to be capable of creating a better future.

Under this pillar, MBRGI’s Dubai Cares has successfully placed education on top of the
agenda for the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (COP 28), during the second RewirED Summit which attracted key

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