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Hundreds of young volunteers provided diagnostic, therapeutic and preventative services for women and children in the White Nile, Sudan, as part of the Sheikha Fatima Global Humanitarian Campaign.
Youth workshops on the importance of volunteerism and humanitarianism also took place, coinciding with the upcoming UN WorldHumanitarian Day, sponsored by Dr Widad Babiker, Chair of the Sanad Charity Foundation and wife of Sudanese President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
The medical assistance and youth workshops were collectively launched by Zayed Giving Initiative, the General Women’s Union and Sanad Charity Foundation in strategic partnership with Dar Al Ber Society, Sharjah Charity House and Saudi German Hospitals Group and in line with the Year of Zayed 2018 initiative launched by President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The Sheikha Fatima humanitarian campaign seeks to organise volunteering progra- mmes that provide necessary medical treatment for underprivileged women and children via the use of mobile field clinics and hospitals, while also encouraging youth — through the hosting of workshops and forums — to build a culture of volunteerism across the Arab world.
This latest endeavour in the White Nile state of Sudan is part the campaign which has helped individuals across Sudanese villages, following the successes of the Fatima bint Mubarak Volunteering Programme which oversaw projects across the UAE, Egypt, Zanzibar, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Kenya, Eritrea, Uganda, Somalia and Tanzania.