September 16, 2015
His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai launches the Arab Reading Challenge, a competition with $3 million in prizes to get 1 million Arab children to read 50 million books.
June 19, 2015
Shaikh Mohammad launches the ‘UAE Initiative for Connection with Orphans and Minors’ which aims to take care of orphans and minors in the country and support them morally and educationally.
March 13, 2015
Shaikh Mohammad announces that the UAE has offered $4 billion to support Egypt. He adds that $2 billion will be deposited in the Egyptian Central Bank, and $2 billion will be used to activate the Egyptian economy.
February 10, 2015
Shaikh Mohammad announces the formation of UAE Gender Balance Council. The council aims to boost UAE efforts to evolve and enhance women’s role as key partners in building the nation’s future.
August 15, 2014
The flow of aid from Dubai to Gaza victims continues with two more flights, raising the total for the aid operation from the International Humanitarian City (IHC) to 22 flights. The initiative is being undertaken under the directives of Shaikh Mohammad.
July 15, 2014
Shaikh Mohammad announces the launch of a $1 million global award and the establishment of the UAE Water Research Agency, to find sustainable solutions to water scarcity across the world.
June 28, 2014
UAE Water Aid campaign project is launched by Shaikh Mohammad to provide access to fresh drinking water for more than 5 million people across the world.
July 11, 2013
Shaikh Mohammad launches the Dress One Million Needy Children campaign to collect donations during Ramadan to dress and clothe one million needy children around the world. He has donated Dh60 million. The campaign eventually helps more than three million underprivileged children in countries all over the world.
August 2, 2012
Dubai Cares, the philanthropic organisation launched by Shaikh Mohammad five years ago, has touched the lives of seven million children through its primary education programmes in 28 developing countries. The organisation has so far built and renovated more than 1,500 schools and classrooms, provided more than 1,000 water wells, constructed 3,000 sanitation facilities, provided nutritious food to more than 490,000 students, helped train 23,000 teachers and distributed more than two million books.
August 16, 2011
The telethon is launched based on the instructions of Shaikh Mohammad to help the people affected by famine and drought in the Horn of Africa. Around Dh19 million is collected.
August 22, 2009
Dubai Cares, the UAE-based philanthropic establishment led by Shaikh Mohammad, launches its Thirst for Education campaign to provide children in developing countries with access to clean drinking water. One way is through building wells in schools.
September 3, 2008
Shaikh Mohammad launches a new initiative aimed at curing one million people of visual impairments. The initiative is called Noor Dubai, which means ‘light’ in Arabic, with the long-term objective of a world free of blindness. Noor Dubai has since reached out to 6.2 million individuals around the world.
September 19, 2007
Shaikh Mohammad launches the Dubai Cares campaign to raise money to educate one million children in poor countries. The campaign is Dubai’s contribution to the UN Millennium Development Goals for providing primary education to every child by 2015.
— Compiled by Gulf News Archives
