SHARJAH / WAM In 2017, Sharjah Charity International (SCI), launched a series of projects in several countries, including Niger, Malawi, India, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Egypt, worth AED7 million, which benefitted poor families. The projects included those in the areas of housing, stories, wells, mosques, schools and infrastructure maintenance, and were funded by an endowment donated by philanthropists in ...

Dubai / WAM Smart Dubai has begun carrying out the first phase of the Dubai Paperless Strategy, which seeks to digitise internal and external transactions at government offices, and save time and effort for employees and customers. The initiative was launched in early 2018 by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Sheikha Fatima Global Humanitarian Campaign (Elaj), has provided free medical treatment to over 20,000 women and children in Sudanese villages, under the slogan, “We Are All Our Mother Fatima,” as part of the Fatima bint Mubarak Volunteering Programme, under a joint initiative by the Zayed Giving Initiative, the General Women’s Union (GWU), and the Sanad ...