The “Billion Meals” initiative, the largest in the region, was launched yesterday, Saturday, in the Emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, to provide food support for up to one billion meals for the poor in 50 countries.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said on his Twitter account: “With God’s blessing, the Billion Meals campaign, the largest campaign to feed the poor and fight hunger in fifty countries, is launched today. Ramadan is the month of fasting that We feel the suffering of 800 million people who go to bed hungry every day.”
Bin Rashid stressed that “there is a real humanitarian crisis due to hunger and food security. The One Billion Meals campaign is under the slogan, “He who is full and his neighbor is hungry does not believe in me.”
He added, “We have one billion humanitarian messages from the Emirates to the world, and our goal is to be the most noble people in the world.”
The initiative opens channels of donation and contribution to philanthropists from institutions, bodies, companies, businessmen and community members from inside and outside the UAE.
On March 10, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid announced the “One Billion Meals” initiative, to be an extension and development of the “100 million meals” and “10 million meals” initiatives, after their success in the past two years, in contributing to providing a food safety net for the poor and the hungry.
The “One Billion Meals” initiative is the latest within the “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives”, the global humanitarian organization, which currently includes dozens of initiatives and institutions that implement charitable and humanitarian work programs around the world, within five main axes: aid, humanitarian and relief, health care and combating Disease, dissemination of education and knowledge, innovation of the future and leadership, and empowerment of societies, in a way that supports institutional humanitarian work, achieves its sustainability and 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.
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