Bank sponsors food truck for workers
Emirates Islamic, Beit Al Khair Society initiative plans to distribute food across UAE every week
Emirates Islamic has teamed up with Beit Al Khair Society to launch a food truck dubbed ‘Food for All’ to distribute light meals to blue-collar workers across the UAE on a weekly basis.
The distribution will be done via a special food truck to those in need across the UAE, with regular distributions planned on a weekly basis.
Abdeen Taher Al Awadi, general manager of Beit Al Khair, said the Food for All truck will move across various emirates to distribute light meals for bluecollar workers, “with the objective to support and encourage this important segment of our society”.
“This is the first of many such programmes that will be witnessed through 2017, in accordance with the Year of Giving initiative. Food distribution for the needy has been one of the key projects at Beit Al Khair, and we have spent about Dh77 million on this project over the last four years,” Al Awadi said.
Awatif Al Harmoodi, general manager, Operational Quality and Processes at Emirates Islamic, said that helping “those in need is a cornerstone of Islamic finance, and we are fully committed to reach out to those who need our support in every way we can.
“Our collaboration with Beit Al Khair Society demonstrates our full support to President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s initiative of making 2017 the Year of Giving, and builds on our nation’s legacy of generosity. Private sector partnership and cooperation form a key pillar of the Year of Giving initiative and we are confident that our participation will help effect positive change for those in need.”
The food distribution by Emirates Islamic continues its partnership with Beit Al Khair Society. Last year, the bank donated Dh1 million to Beit Al Khair Society as part of Emirates Islamic Charity Fund’s annual Ramadan campaign to provide financial aid.