On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 8:31 PM, Emirates Food Bank Foundation announced its initiatives for the holy month of Ramadan. These initiatives include managing surplus food and reducing waste, delivering food to those in need inside and outside of the UAE, and raising community awareness to reach zero food waste. Dawood Al-Hajri, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Food Bank, said that the bank’s initiatives reflect its goals as a humanitarian system and embody the values of humanity, benevolence, and giving in the UAE. The Emirates Food Bank, affiliated with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, aims to provide three million meals through donations in partnership with various companies. The bank will encourage volunteer work, participation in its activities, and donation of food and finances to deliver food to as many people as possible while reducing surplus. The Emirates Food Bank will also work with recycling companies to recycle food not suitable for human consumption, and convert it into oils and agricultural fertilizers. The bank aims to raise awareness of reducing food waste, contribute to the fight once morest global hunger, and achieve sustainability, in line with the declaration of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, for the current year 2023, the year of sustainability in the UAE. Lastly, Emirates Food Bank is cooperating with “Nemah” to launch an initiative aimed at spreading community awareness for better decisions regarding food consumption and changing behaviors related to food waste.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 – 8:31 PM
The initiatives aim to manage surplus food and reduce its waste, deliver food to the largest number of those in need inside and outside the UAE, and raise community awareness to reach zero food waste.
– Dawood Al-Hajri:
– “Initiatives reflect the bank’s goals as a humanitarian system and embody the values of humanity, benevolence and giving in the UAE.”
– “Enhancing social responsibility between the bank, partners and community members, to collect financial and food donations and deliver them to the beneficiaries, and encourage the increase of volunteer work to deliver food to the largest possible segment and reduce the surplus.”
DUBAI, 22 March / WAM / Under the directives of the wife 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, Her Highness Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, Supreme Chairperson of the Emirates Food Bank Foundation; The Emirates Food Bank, affiliated to the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, announced its initiatives during the holy month of Ramadan, which include providing three million meals from donations, in cooperation with partners.
The initiative aims to manage surplus food and reduce its waste, and to deliver food to the largest number of those in need inside and outside the UAE, in addition to raising community awareness to reach zero food waste.
His Excellency Dawood Al-Hajri, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Food Bank, said: The bank’s initiatives during the holy month of Ramadan are a reflection of its lofty goal as a humanitarian system that elevates the value of feeding food, and a true embodiment of the values of humanity, goodness and giving in the UAE, and its vision to achieve sustainability in all fields. Through its activities and initiatives, the Emirates Food Bank seeks to spread these values and consolidate them globally, through its vision and mission in planning and ensuring the management of surplus food and delivering it to beneficiaries locally and globally, and reducing its waste.
He added: This comes in implementation of the directives of the wife 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,” Her Highness Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, Supreme Chairwoman of the Emirates Food Bank Foundation, in planning and implementing Humanitarian initiatives that ensure the provision and delivery of food and food to those who deserve it during the holy month of Ramadan.
Al-Hajri explained: The initiatives during the month of Ramadan will enhance social responsibility between the bank, partners and community members, to collect financial and food donations and deliver them to the beneficiaries. It will also encourage an increase in volunteer work and participation in the bank’s business and activities, which will enhance the values of brotherhood and goodness in society, and achieve the goal of these initiatives by delivering food to the largest possible segment and reducing its surplus.
(3 million meals donations)
For her part, Manal Bin Yarouf, Chairman of the Bank’s Business Steering Committee, said: The Emirates Food Bank will work to collect 3 million meals, in coordination with all food companies to count donations and transfer them to the bank, and then outside the country in coordination with the Emirates Red Crescent. Coordination will also take place with those concerned in hotels and iftar tents to count surplus food, and to determine the locations and times for transporting foodstuffs and meals to the bank and charities in cooperation with delivery companies. The initiative aims to raise awareness of the importance of reducing food surpluses and distributing them optimally, and contributing to the fight once morest global hunger, by delivering food of high quality, and reducing its waste through integrated management of surplus food at all stages of collection and distribution.
And she indicated that, within the framework of partnership with the private sector, the bank will strengthen its cooperation with recycling companies, which will in turn recycle food that is not suitable for human consumption if it is damaged, and convert it into oils and agricultural fertilizers, with the aim of preserving the environment and sustainability, in line with the declaration of His Highness. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, may God protect him, for the current year 2023, the year of sustainability in the UAE.
(Your mash on us)
Manal Bin Yarouf added, “We have introduced the ‘Hariscom On Us’ initiative, which focuses on activating social responsibility among community members and promoting voluntary work among them, in cooperation with the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai, by encouraging kitchens to allocate at least one meal per day from a dish.” Harees is one of the traditional Emirati dishes, and it is distributed to iftar tents due to the high demand for it, in order to enhance the values of giving, goodness and feeding food.
The bank will determine the most important volunteer kitchens to participate in the initiative, the criteria and times for providing harees meals, and coordination with iftar tents to distribute meals, in addition to identifying volunteers participating in the distribution of meals.
( Awareness )
Emirates Food Bank is cooperating with “Nemah”, the national initiative to reduce food loss and waste, to launch an initiative aimed at spreading community awareness, educating and empowering community members to make better decisions regarding food consumption, change current behaviors related to food loss, and replace them with more positive and sustainable habits that show responsibility. social and sound management towards preserving our food resources; This comes in line with the National Strategy for Food Security, which aims to reduce food loss and waste by developing an integrated system to reduce food waste within supply chains.
The initiative also enhances cooperation and coordination efforts between the two parties to facilitate and receive food from restaurants, hotels, caterers and the hospitality sector, redirect surplus food to needy groups, and contribute to community awareness and the importance of donating surplus food for redistribution or recycling food waste.
The awareness campaigns are part of the social responsibility of the Emirates Food Bank, through which it aims to introduce community members to its initiatives, raise community awareness of the importance of managing surplus food and reducing its waste, promoting a culture of food sustainability and consumer culture among individuals, and encouraging them to volunteer with the bank to help carry out its work. and food delivery to those who deserve it.
( Achievements 2022 )
The Emirates Food Bank achieved outstanding results during the past year 2022, as the amount of food received reached more than 11 million meals, which were distributed in the UAE and abroad to more than 11 million individuals, and the bank succeeded in exploiting the amount of surplus food of approximately 10 million meals. and concluded 31 new partnership agreements.
The bank was able to enhance social responsibility and volunteer work, following the number of volunteers in its initiatives reached 1,079, while the number of contributing partners reached 18 charities and 163 donors, in addition to the implementation of 1,080 inspection visits to 45 refrigerators, and the implementation of 52 programs and workshops.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023 – 8:31 PM
The initiatives aim to manage surplus food and reduce its waste, deliver food to the largest number of those in need inside and outside the UAE, and raise community awareness to reach zero food waste.
– Dawood Al-Hajri:
– “Initiatives reflect the bank’s goals as a humanitarian system and embody the values of humanity, benevolence and giving in the UAE.”
– “Enhancing social responsibility between the bank, partners and community members, to collect financial and food donations and deliver them to the beneficiaries, and encourage the increase of volunteer work to deliver food to the largest possible segment and reduce the surplus.”
DUBAI, 22 March / WAM / Under the directives of the wife 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, Her Highness Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, Supreme Chairperson of the Emirates Food Bank Foundation; The Emirates Food Bank, affiliated to the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, announced its initiatives during the holy month of Ramadan, which include providing three million meals from donations, in cooperation with partners.
The initiative aims to manage surplus food and reduce its waste, and to deliver food to the largest number of those in need inside and outside the UAE, in addition to raising community awareness to reach zero food waste.
His Excellency Dawood Al-Hajri, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Food Bank, said: The bank’s initiatives during the holy month of Ramadan are a reflection of its lofty goal as a humanitarian system that elevates the value of feeding food, and a true embodiment of the values of humanity, goodness and giving in the UAE, and its vision to achieve sustainability in all fields. Through its activities and initiatives, the Emirates Food Bank seeks to spread these values and consolidate them globally, through its vision and mission in planning and ensuring the management of surplus food and delivering it to beneficiaries locally and globally, and reducing its waste.
He added: This comes in implementation of the directives of the wife 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,” Her Highness Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, Supreme Chairwoman of the Emirates Food Bank Foundation, in planning and implementing Humanitarian initiatives that ensure the provision and delivery of food and food to those who deserve it during the holy month of Ramadan.
Al-Hajri explained: The initiatives during the month of Ramadan will enhance social responsibility between the bank, partners and community members, to collect financial and food donations and deliver them to the beneficiaries. It will also encourage an increase in volunteer work and participation in the bank’s business and activities, which will enhance the values of brotherhood and goodness in society, and achieve the goal of these initiatives by delivering food to the largest possible segment and reducing its surplus.
(3 million meals donations)
For her part, Manal Bin Yarouf, Chairman of the Bank’s Business Steering Committee, said: The Emirates Food Bank will work to collect 3 million meals, in coordination with all food companies to count donations and transfer them to the bank, and then outside the country in coordination with the Emirates Red Crescent. Coordination will also take place with those concerned in hotels and iftar tents to count surplus food, and to determine the locations and times for transporting foodstuffs and meals to the bank and charities in cooperation with delivery companies. The initiative aims to raise awareness of the importance of reducing food surpluses and distributing them optimally, and contributing to the fight once morest global hunger, by delivering food of high quality, and reducing its waste through integrated management of surplus food at all stages of collection and distribution.
And she indicated that, within the framework of partnership with the private sector, the bank will strengthen its cooperation with recycling companies, which will in turn recycle food that is not suitable for human consumption if it is damaged, and convert it into oils and agricultural fertilizers, with the aim of preserving the environment and sustainability, in line with the declaration of His Highness. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, may God protect him, for the current year 2023, the year of sustainability in the UAE.
(Your mash on us)
Manal Bin Yarouf added, “We have introduced the ‘Hariscom On Us’ initiative, which focuses on activating social responsibility among community members and promoting voluntary work among them, in cooperation with the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai, by encouraging kitchens to allocate at least one meal per day from a dish.” Harees is one of the traditional Emirati dishes, and it is distributed to iftar tents due to the high demand for it, in order to enhance the values of giving, goodness and feeding food.
The bank will determine the most important volunteer kitchens to participate in the initiative, the criteria and times for providing harees meals, and coordination with iftar tents to distribute meals, in addition to identifying volunteers participating in the distribution of meals.
( Awareness )
Emirates Food Bank is cooperating with “Nemah”, the national initiative to reduce food loss and waste, to launch an initiative aimed at spreading community awareness, educating and empowering community members to make better decisions regarding food consumption, change current behaviors related to food loss, and replace them with more positive and sustainable habits that show responsibility. social and sound management towards preserving our food resources; This comes in line with the National Strategy for Food Security, which aims to reduce food loss and waste by developing an integrated system to reduce food waste within supply chains.
The initiative also enhances cooperation and coordination efforts between the two parties to facilitate and receive food from restaurants, hotels, caterers and the hospitality sector, redirect surplus food to needy groups, and contribute to community awareness and the importance of donating surplus food for redistribution or recycling food waste.
The awareness campaigns are part of the social responsibility of the Emirates Food Bank, through which it aims to introduce community members to its initiatives, raise community awareness of the importance of managing surplus food and reducing its waste, promoting a culture of food sustainability and consumer culture among individuals, and encouraging them to volunteer with the bank to help carry out its work. and food delivery to those who deserve it.
( Achievements 2022 )
The Emirates Food Bank achieved outstanding results during the past year 2022, as the amount of food received reached more than 11 million meals, which were distributed in the UAE and abroad to more than 11 million individuals, and the bank succeeded in exploiting the amount of surplus food of approximately 10 million meals. and concluded 31 new partnership agreements.
The bank was able to enhance social responsibility and volunteer work, following the number of volunteers in its initiatives reached 1,079, while the number of contributing partners reached 18 charities and 163 donors, in addition to the implementation of 1,080 inspection visits to 45 refrigerators, and the implementation of 52 programs and workshops.
Mostafa Badr El Din
