UAE Food Bank honours strategic partners and volunteers

- Under the directives of Hind bint Maktoum ..UAE Food Bank honours strategical partners and volunteers

Dawoud Al Hajri: The UAE Food Bank’s imaginativeness reflects the UAE’s committedness to humanitarian enactment and the authentic values of foundation and giving ingrained successful UAE society

- As portion of the Food Bank’s initiatives, implicit 24.5 cardinal meals distributed successful the archetypal 9 months of 2024, marking a 93% summation compared to the erstwhile year
- 150 consciousness programmes and 18 concern agreements assistance bolster the Food Bank’s activities and outreach

Under the directives of Her Highness Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, Supreme Chairperson of the UAE Food Bank and woman of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the UAE Food Bank, portion of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, held its yearly ceremonial to honour strategical partners, supporters, and volunteers. The ceremonial recognised the efforts of radical and entities who contributed generously to the Food Bank’s initiatives close done the year. Among the honourees were authorities departments, institutions, charities, hotels, backstage assemblage entities, and volunteers of each ages and divers backgrounds.

The Food Bank announced the organisation of 24,586,367 meals to beneficiaries successful the archetypal 9 months of 2024, a 93% summation from the aforesaid play past year, with a regular organisation complaint exceeding 90,000 meals. The figures surpass the Food Bank’s yearly people and enactment its ngo to foster the values of kindness, sustainability, and societal responsibility, portion besides enhancing nutrient information and combatting nutrient waste.

In the archetypal 9 months of the year, the UAE Food Bank distributed 166.7 tonnes of food, the equivalent of 416,750 meals, among beneficiaries. It was supported successful its edeavours by 925 strategical partners and donors ranging from nutrient establishments, hotels, and companies, successful summation to implicit 5,000 volunteers. The initiatives touched the lives of much than 24.5 cardinal radical successful the state and astir the world.

Supporting sustainability
The UAE Food Bank diverted implicit 9 cardinal meals from landfills, preventing the wastage of 3,700 tonnes of food. Its actions besides helped beforehand biology sustainability by reducing c emissions. The Food Bank’s efforts lend to environmental, social, and economical sustainability by managing surplus nutrient efficiently, redistributing it among beneficiaries locally and globally, and recycling unsuitable nutrient for composting successful collaboration with private-sector partners.

Strategic collaboration
The UAE Food Bank collaborated with Nimah, a nationalist inaugural to trim nutrient wastage, achieving a 47% simplification successful nutrient wastage astatine participating hotels betwixt 2022 and 2024. Through its No Waste Ramadan initiative, 63 hotels worldwide hosted grooming and consciousness programmes for 400 employees, promoting societal work and achieving a marked simplification successful nutrient wastage. The inaugural besides progressive the organisation of 300 nutrient discarded sorting bins successful edifice kitchens, resulting successful the diversion of 401,266 kg of nutrient from landfill. Additionally, 232,946 kg of non-perishable nutrient was recycled, and 46,589 kg of compost was produced to enactment implicit 50 section farms, collectively reducing c emissions by 1,003,166 kg.

His Excellency Dawoud Al Hajri, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the UAE Food Bank, underscored that these accomplishments bespeak the UAE’s dedication to humanitarian enactment and the noble values of charity, solidarity, and brotherhood ingrained successful UAE society. He emphasised that the UAE Food Bank embodies these values arsenic a sustainable, world-leading instauration committed to achieving the UAE’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and delivering nutrient to those successful need.

HE Al Hajri stated: “We admit the efforts of each strategical partners, donors, and volunteers who person supported the Bank’s initiatives, which highlights their societal work and humanitarian spirit. Their corporate efforts and consciousness of volunteerism person made a important impact, enabling the Bank to execute its noble goals of providing sustenance to its beneficiaries.”

Educational and consciousness programmes
The UAE Food Bank conducted 150 consciousness programmes, engaging 3,437 assemblage members and nutrient installation workers to beforehand amended preservation of nutrient and a simplification successful its wastage. Additionally, 18 caller concern agreements were signed to heighten strategical partnerships supporting the Food Bank’s mission.

During Ramadan, the UAE Food Bank distributed 7,322,694 meals nether the ‘5 Million Meals Initiative,’ with sub-initiatives including ‘Food Baskets’, ‘Your Breakfast with Us’, the ‘1,000 Cookers’ programme, and an iftar hosted for 5,500 workers astatine Zabeel Park successful Dubai.
In effect to the utmost upwind brought connected by the ‘Al Hadeer’ depression, which led to unprecedented rainfall, the UAE Food Bank provided 114,910 meals to those affected, reflecting its readiness and committedness to assemblage payment during emergencies.

The UAE Food Bank operates connected the halfway principles of humaneness, philanthropy, sustainability, and societal responsibility, with its semipermanent plans geared to enactment radical successful request each astir the world.

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