ABU DHABI / WAM
His Highness Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, launched the “First Elderlies Forum,” which was organised by the Family Development Foundation (FDF), under the patronage of HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF), and under the theme, “You Are Our Support And The Heroes Of Our Advancement,” on the occasion of the International Day for Older Persons, at the FDF’s branch in the Abu Dhabi Centre.
The forum highlighted the importance of benefitting from the elderly as members of the community, and is a realisation of the vision of the founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, to invest in their energies and abilities and promote their role in the community.