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Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s personal contribution of real estate assets
and monetary donations worth AED 250 million.
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
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