Dubai: Lulu Group International will support the Special Olympics World Summer Games, scheduled to be held in Abu Dhabi during 2019.
Mohammad Abdulla Al Junaibi, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi World Games Higher Committee, who signed the agreement with Yussuf Ali MA, chairman of LuLu Group International, said: “We are grateful and excited to be working with LuLu Group International on the Games. LuLu Group embodies several of the values that the Games are based on, such as tolerance and living in harmony with one another. LuLu’s support will help ensure we put on the most unified Games in history and that we can spread our message of tolerance, unity and inclusivity far and wide.”
Lulu will be the exclusive retail sponsors for the Games and will be involved in will be involved in volunteering and fund-raising.
Commenting on their decision to back a sports event, Ali said: “It is our proud privilege to associate with such a humanitarian international event which is going to further strengthen Abu Dhabi and UAE’s image as one of the most benevolent countries in the world. I look at this partnership not just as a sponsorship agreement, but as a concrete step towards making this world take note of people with special abilities and offers them greater role in life.” This Special Olympics is also being backed by ADNOC and Etihad. It is a global event that takes place once every two years, catering to athletes of determination (with intellectual disabilities. It represents the highlight event of the global Special Olympics movement. Abu Dhabi will become the first city in the Middle East and North Africa to host the prestigious Games, to be held from March 14-21 and will draw 7,000 athletes from 170 nations, making it the world’s largest sporting and humanitarian event.
The organisers are expecting thousands of overseas visitors are expected to fly into the UAE and over 500,000 spectators may watch the event in the UAE’s capital.
