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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.

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

officials and focused on turning education into a key element of sustainable
development.

Striving to achieve the 4th goal of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for ‘Good

Education’, Dubai Cares continued to support innovative education, as well as technical
and vocational training programmes, with a special focus on the provision of education
amidst emergencies and prolonged crises. Beneficiaries of Dubai Cares projects

amounted to more than 24 million people from 60 countries by the end of 2023.

The 7th Arab Reading Challenge, which concluded in October 2023, saw the record
participation of 24.8 million students from 46 countries, and continued to encourage a

love of reading among students as a means to spread awareness of its importance,
promote values of tolerance and moderation, and create a new generation of creative

minds.

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