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Other initiatives included “Bridges of Goodness” campaign to provide and relief to
victims of the Syria and Türkiye earthquake, emergency aid to Sudanese displaced
populations who forcibly left their homes due to conflict in Sudan, as well as emergency
aid worth AED 50 million to Palestinians in Gaza who face sever humanitarian
challenges.

In 2023, the International Humanitarian City (IHC) celebrated two decades of proactive
humanitarian work since its establishment. Over 746 metric tonnes of aid were
dispatched by IHC in 2023, benefiting over 1.5 million people affected by wars and
natural disasters.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment, UAE Food
Bank, UAE Water Aid Foundation (Suqia) and the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Centre
for Endowment Consultancy continued to support and 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

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