Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, will honour 45 leading supporters of the UAE’s Year of Reading campaign on November 28.
The event will be the third edition of the UAE Pioneers initiative, marking achievements that were made during the Year of Reading in various fields. A grand national ceremony will be held in Abu Dhabi and will coincide with celebrations for the 45th anniversary of the UAE National Day.
Shaikh Mohammad had recently ordered allocating this year’s UAE Pioneers ceremony to honour figures, federal and local bodies and private sector organisations that supported reading. The honourees, who will be granted UAE Pioneers medals and awards, were approved following an evaluation of all nominees.
During the past two years, the UAE Pioneers ceremony honoured a number of pioneers, achievers, inventors and innovators, whose names were archived in an annually released encyclopedia that details their achievements.