Dubai: Dar Al Ber Society, a Dubai-based philanthropic and charitable organisation, pledged on Saturday to do its part in the initiative launched by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, which aims at taking care of orphans and minors in the country and supporting them morally and educationally.
Shaikh Mohammad launched the ‘UAE Initiative for Connection with Orphans and Minors’ on Friday, tweeting that the initiative “will provide a set of voluntary channels that will help form familial ties with orphans”. He also invited residents to join the programme and help provide the right kind of emotional environment that orphans need and deserve.
Through the initiative, volunteers will be provided with different means to help bring comfort and inclusivity to orphans and to meet each child’s educational and moral needs.
Khalfan Khalifa Al Mazroui, Chairman of Dar Al Ber Society, said the generous move is one of many caring charity campaigns that Shaikh Mohammad has launched for the benefit of orphans and the needy.
“The initiative has deeply touched our hearts and perfectly matched Dar Al Ber Society’s 36-year-old vision in pursuance of the directives of the prudent leadership for supporting orphans and minors,” Al Mazroui said, pledging that the Society will give its full support to the initiative.
Mazrouie said Dar Al Ber takes care of orphans financially, morally, medically, educationally, and psychologically.
Al Mazroui said Dar Al Ber Society is now sponsoring 31,694 orphans, including 1,015 in the UAE, and 30,679 abroad, along with 523 poor and low-income families, and 42 handicapped people.
“While the orphans registered are being supported by 15,339 Emirati and expatriate sponsors in the UAE, the Society is dedicated to providing them with proper living conditions, as well as educational and health services. It spent more than Dh35 million on them in 2014.”
Al Mazroui said the Society also provides those orphans with medical insurance and regularly gives them their money via e-cards in their guardians’ names.
“Dar Al Ber Society has also built and furnished a village for orphans, worth Dh8 million, at the Beqaa area of Lebanon, and named it after the mother of giving.”
Earlier, Shaikh Mohammed launched the Family Village, a pioneering project for hosting orphans, and providing them with high-class accommodation, education, and food, along with due medical and psychological care.
He had also instructed the Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation to start the promising venture, and ordered two plots of lands to be granted to the scheme, one for building the village and the other for building an endowment to support the project and keep it running and developing.
