The seeds of change can be sown in charitable works. As the remarkable success of the Dubai Cares campaign showed, when a visionary leader with a heart of gold takes the helm, fighting social ills can never be a daunting task, a UAE paper commented on Tuesday.
''At a time when the UN is struggling hard to achieve its Millennium Development Target of attaining universal primary education by 2015, the charity drive carried out under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has been able to raise a whopping Dh 3.4 billion to help educate one million children in various parts of the world. The leader whose generosity knows no bounds has therefore set an example for others to follow, wrote the Khaleej Times.
The Dubai-based paper said :'' Giving a further boost to charity drives in the region, Shaikh Mohammed launched the Arab Foundation for Social Charity during the conference on regional consultations on Arab philanthropy.
''The foundation will primarily help to unify various charitable ventures in the region or ensure better coordination among charity organisations in the Arab world for, as the Ruler himself put it, "enabling the region to overcome the challenges it is facing".
''As it was pointed out at the conference, there is a need to organise various charitable efforts and work collectively so that people can serve the poor and the underprivileged in a more effective manner. A greater cooperation between the public and private sectors in the field of charity can certainly foster social development.
''It is a fact that over the past few years, there has been an exponential growth in the number of charity organisations including endowments and funds in the Arab world. According to analysts, with a significant rise in corporate social responsibility programmes, the field of charity in the region, particularly in the UAE, has been of late witnessing a shift from "traditional giving" to "strategic philanthropy".
''In other words, the focus is now more on what can be regarded as institutionalising philanthropy that demands the creation of professionally managed foundations to take care of charity drives. And the UAE, which has a rich tradition and culture of giving and caring, is evidently at the forefront of this change in the pattern of philanthropy in the Arab world.
''The Arab Foundation for Social Charity is therefore set to play a vital role in shaping charity initiatives. According to Shaikh Mohammed, the mere availability of funds is not enough - for charitable works to succeed, high-calibre administrative expertise and an unwavering determination to carry out the projects are strongly needed.
''The two-day conference was organised by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, which is recognised as a major initiative in the region dedicated to promoting human development and providing hope and opportunity by investing substantially in education and knowledge development,''. (WAM)
''At a time when the UN is struggling hard to achieve its Millennium Development Target of attaining universal primary education by 2015, the charity drive carried out under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has been able to raise a whopping Dh 3.4 billion to help educate one million children in various parts of the world. The leader whose generosity knows no bounds has therefore set an example for others to follow, wrote the Khaleej Times.
The Dubai-based paper said :'' Giving a further boost to charity drives in the region, Shaikh Mohammed launched the Arab Foundation for Social Charity during the conference on regional consultations on Arab philanthropy.
''The foundation will primarily help to unify various charitable ventures in the region or ensure better coordination among charity organisations in the Arab world for, as the Ruler himself put it, "enabling the region to overcome the challenges it is facing".
''As it was pointed out at the conference, there is a need to organise various charitable efforts and work collectively so that people can serve the poor and the underprivileged in a more effective manner. A greater cooperation between the public and private sectors in the field of charity can certainly foster social development.
''It is a fact that over the past few years, there has been an exponential growth in the number of charity organisations including endowments and funds in the Arab world. According to analysts, with a significant rise in corporate social responsibility programmes, the field of charity in the region, particularly in the UAE, has been of late witnessing a shift from "traditional giving" to "strategic philanthropy".
''In other words, the focus is now more on what can be regarded as institutionalising philanthropy that demands the creation of professionally managed foundations to take care of charity drives. And the UAE, which has a rich tradition and culture of giving and caring, is evidently at the forefront of this change in the pattern of philanthropy in the Arab world.
''The Arab Foundation for Social Charity is therefore set to play a vital role in shaping charity initiatives. According to Shaikh Mohammed, the mere availability of funds is not enough - for charitable works to succeed, high-calibre administrative expertise and an unwavering determination to carry out the projects are strongly needed.
''The two-day conference was organised by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, which is recognised as a major initiative in the region dedicated to promoting human development and providing hope and opportunity by investing substantially in education and knowledge development,''. (WAM)
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