Emirates Charity: Community & Culture | Giving Back

The UAE celebrates the “International Day of Charitable Action”, which coincides with the fifth of September of each year, stressing its continued commitment to its humanitarian and civilizational responsibilities, in strengthening charitable, humanitarian and development work at the global level.

Charitable work in the Emirates is an authentic approach, and a firm societal culture since the establishment of the union, as it did not hesitate since then to help the distressed, relief the afflicted, and to enhance the spirit of solidarity and human solidarity with all peoples and countries in times of disasters, crises, wars, and conflicts.

According to the ninth principle of the fifty principles of the UAE, the foreign humanitarian aid of the state is an integral part of its career and moral obligations towards the less fortunate peoples, and translation of this, the value of the UAE foreign aid until mid -2024 has reached more than 360 billion dirhams (98 billion US dollars).

The occasion this year, while the UAE is leading international efforts to help and relief the Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip, through the “Al -Faris 3” process, and its commitment continues to provide various forms of humanitarian and relief support to the brotherly Sudanese people, as its value over the past ten years exceeded 3.5 billion dollars, while the total number of beneficiaries of humanitarian and relief aid provided by the UAE to the friendly Ukrainian people, until last February, reached more than last February, more than last February, more than last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, until last February, more than last February, 1.2 million people.

In terms of relief to the victims of natural disasters, the UAE provided aid to the friendly Republic of Chad, which included 30 thousand food baskets, and more than 20 thousand covers, and also provided 700 tons of urgent food supplies to those affected by the floods that swept several areas in Somalia, and sent urgent humanitarian assistance to the Republic of Myanmar, to provide support for approximately 80 thousand people from The affected by the earthquake witnessed in the country, while the UAE announced on September 1 to provide urgent humanitarian assistance in the interest of 960 families affected by the torrents that swept the areas of the western coast of Yemen.

The Emirates Agency for International Aid and the government of the Republic of Chad signed the agreement to build Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Hospital and the dialysis center in Angina, the capital of the Republic of Chad.

The UAE witnessed, during the current year, the launch of a number of humanitarian initiatives with a global impact, such as the “Stopping of the Father”, who will invest part of its proceeds in providing health care and treatment for the poor and the needy and unable, and support the health system in the less fortunate societies, by developing hospitals, and securing the necessary medicines and treatments.

The International Humanitarian Affairs Council in the Presidential Bureau oversees the international humanitarian affairs system, which the UAE undertakes, through its leading global initiatives and multiple charitable and development projects.

The UAE has dozens of humanitarian institutions and charitable societies that play prominent and influential roles at the state level and abroad, such as the Dubai Charitable Society, which provided basic assistance to millions of beneficiaries in 21 countries, including the UAE, and the Sharjah Charitable Society, which has a total assistance, guarantees and projects that it implemented during the first half of this year, more than 214 million and 415 thousand dollars, benefiting more than a million And 546 thousand people.

The Saqr bin Muhammad Al Qasimi Foundation for Charitable and Humanitarian Works announced a series of qualitative achievements and programs during the first half of this year, achieving a direct and sustainable impact on the lives of thousands inside and outside the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.

The Emirates Charitable Society implemented 1451 charitable projects during the first half of this year, while the value of the aid of the Saud bin Rashid Al -Mualla Foundation for charitable and humanitarian work in Umm Al Quwain reached 18.2 million dirhams during the first quarter of this year.

The World Charitable Business Authority has implemented projects worth 222 million dirhams during the first half of this year, while the value of projects and initiatives of the Union Charity Foundation exceeded 16 million dirhams, while Al -Ihsan Charitable Society spent more than 60 million dirhams on humanitarian and development projects during the same period.

The “Conservation of Grace” project, which is affiliated with the Fujairah Charitable Society, succeeded in reaching 259 thousand beneficiaries during the first half of this year, while the Hamad bin Mohammed Al -Sharqi Humanitarian Foundation provided prominent assistance in the health and educational fields, as well as its contribution to the “Al -Faris 3” process.

The UAE is one of the first countries that rushed to organize charitable work, by setting all legislative and executive frameworks, which guarantee it flexibility and speed of movement, and in this context the UAE issued Federal Law No. 3 of 2021, which organized donation collection in the country, protecting the funds of donors and submitting them legally.

During the past years, the UAE launched many humanitarian and charitable initiatives, to extend a helping hand to siblings and friends, and stand by them in times of crisis and disasters, including the “Aid Ya Yaman” campaign in 2015, the “For You Somalia” campaign in 2017, the UAE campaign to the children and women of the Rohingya in 2019, and a campaign “to make their winter warmer” in 2022, directed to support Refugees and displaced people in the Middle East and Africa, the “Bridges of Good” campaign in February 2023 to help those affected by the earthquake in Syria and Turkey, and the “Tarameh for Gaza” campaign in October 2023, and the “Emirates with you, Lebanon” campaign in 2024, and other campaigns that embodied the approach of good in the UAE.

• The external humanitarian aid of the state is part of its march and moral obligations towards the less fortunate peoples.