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contribute to MBRGI humanitarian efforts around the world in projects that

focused on aid, food donations, clean water provision and other humanitarian
services throughout 2023.

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.

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.

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