Initiative to promote giving among kids
dubai — The National Happiness and Positivity Programme has launched an initiative called ‘100 Days of Giving’ targeting UAE private and public school students.
In cooperation with the Ministry of Education, the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec) and Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), the nation-wide initiative aims to instil and cultivate the value of giving among students. This will help schools — along with parents at home — to build a values-based generation of children characterised by giving.
Overseen by the National Happiness and Positivity Programme, the launch of the 100 Days of Giving initiative is part of the ‘Giving is Happiness’ programme, which includes a number of national initiatives, such as the #1MillionActsOfGiving, the Happiness Journey, and many more.
The initiative aims to involve students, parents and educational and administrative bodies within schools in a series of activities that help shape students’ personalities and encourage them to adopt giving as a way of life.
Students are called to document their participation in the initiative’s activities in special notebooks that will be handed out to them, while school-led activities are to be documented using
The 100 Days of Giving initiative targets all public and private schools in the UAE and resonates with the Year of Giving.” Ohood bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Happiness
the hashtag #100_Days_of_Giving on Twitter. The top 10 student projects will be recognised with certificates of gratitude handed out at an awards ceremony.
Ohood bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Happiness, said: “The 100 Days of Giving initiative targets all public and private schools in the UAE and resonates with the Year of Giving. It embodies the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, who said: ‘Happiness is about giving, helping people, and not expecting anything in return’.”
The initiative also echoes the statement of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, who said: “Giving is a great value that has been established by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and became a unique and distinguishing feature of the UAE.”
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