Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, “may God protect him,” the “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives” Foundation announced the provision of approximately 30 million dirhams ($8.1 million) to support United Nations programs. Children's Fund “UNICEF”.
This came during the participation of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation in the work of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, during the period from January 15 to 19, where the Foundation signed a partnership commitment with UNICEF, with the aim of improving living conditions and providing a food safety net for groups. Vulnerable children and women in many countries around the world, especially those facing crises and difficult circumstances, where children and women suffer from severe living problems and malnutrition.
Both sides aspire that the new partnership will be an important step that contributes to ensuring that every child and woman receives the necessary nutrition to protect them from malnutrition, and helps achieve their development potential in the long term.
Under this partnership, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation joins a group of global partners such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund (CIFF) Foundation, providing approximately 30 million dirhams ($8.1 million) as a contribution to The Child Nutrition Fund (CNF), managed by UNICEF, is a new financing mechanism designed to accelerate the implementation of policies, programs and assistance directed at ending the phenomenon of child wasting. This donation will enable the Child Nutrition Fund to provide basic nutritional supplements and therapeutic meals to more than 270,000 children. And a woman during the next three years, which is in line with the goals of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, in combating hunger and malnutrition, and helping the less fortunate groups around the world.
Comprehensive framework
His Excellency Saeed Al Eter, Assistant Secretary-General of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, said: “Cooperation with UNICEF comes from the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai (may God protect him), By supporting those in need, the Child Nutrition Fund supports approximately 30 million dirhams to provide basic nutritional supplements and meals for more than 270,000 children and women during the next three years, as an extension of several partnerships concluded by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation with international organizations, in order to intensify efforts. To develop sustainable policies and solutions, and provide the necessary funding to implement them.”
His Excellency added: “The Initiatives Foundation’s support for the Child Nutrition Fund (CNF), which was launched by UNICEF with the aim of eliminating the problem of child wasting around the world, reflects our awareness of the magnitude of the problem of child malnutrition and its impact that hinders the process of development and societal and economic progress, and our confidence that The comprehensive framework on which the Child Nutrition Fund is based is capable of bringing about meaningful and sustainable change in the context of preventing, treating and eliminating child wasting problems.”
Support vulnerable communities
For her part, Kitty van der Heyden, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF, said: “We value this partnership with the (Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives) Foundation, which aims to support child and maternal nutrition programs in the most vulnerable and poorest communities. Sound nutrition is The basis for children’s survival, growth and development. Children who receive good nutrition have a better ability to grow, develop, learn, and achieve their ambitions. They are also more able to resist diseases and withstand crises. We look forward, through this partnership with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, to To achieve tangible results to improve the nutrition of children and women.”
The partnership between the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation and UNICEF is considered a renewed commitment towards providing a better future for the most vulnerable groups of children and women, and evidence of close cooperation and concerted efforts to achieve sustainable development goals, especially in the face of escalating global challenges, the most prominent of which are: Inequality, conflict and climate crises.
According to the World Health Organization, undernutrition causes the death of 1.3 million children annually in the world, or 45% of all child deaths, as 52 million children under the age of five suffer from wasting, 17 million children suffer from severe wasting, and 155 million children suffer from stunting, in When 41 million children suffer from overweight or obesity.
Eliminate hunger
The initiatives of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation include dozens of initiatives and institutions that implement charitable and humanitarian work programs in various parts of the world within five main axes: aid, humanitarian and relief, health care and combating disease, spreading education and knowledge, inventing the future and leadership, and empowering communities. In a way that supports institutional humanitarian work, achieves its sustainability, expands its positive impact, establishes a culture of hope in the region and the world, and contributes to achieving the desired development for a better future.
The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, through its five axes, spent 1.4 billion dirhams in the year 2022, contributing to improving the lives of 102 million people in 100 countries. The programs and initiatives of the humanitarian and relief aid axis benefited 30 million and 200 thousand people, an increase of about 7.3 million. Beneficiary for the year 2021, and the volume of spending on various initiatives, projects and programs under this axis reached 910 million dirhams, an increase of 493 million over the year 2021.
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