Society earmarks Dh90M for Ramadan projects

dubai —Beit Al Khair Society’s announced its biggest ever Ramadan campaign. The society will spend up to Dh90 million, on a variety of charity programmes during the Holy Month of Ramadan.

On Sunday, the society launched its three-month drive. Themed ‘We shall amply reward the philanthropists’, the line-up of activities and projects will mark the Year of Zayed according to Abdeen Taher Al Awadhi, general director of Beit Al Khair Society.

“Beit Al Khair’s Ramadan campaign is targeting around 25,000 vulnerable families this year,” Al Awadhi said. “These include 3,537 families on monthly cash allowances, 15,000 indigent students, 533 widows, 470 elderly people, besides patients, people of determination, and emergency cases.”

The Dh90 million will be spread over the project line-up over three months starting on the first day of the lunar month of Rajab and ending on the first day of Eid Al Fitr. “These are apart from several charity projects and initiatives the society is geared up to carry out in the Year of Zayed in view of the spirit of the Holy Month of Ramadan.”

The Iftar meal project supplies free and fast meals at the society’s Ramadan tents, to tens of thousands of workers, passersby, and those who end up breaking their Iftar outdoors, away from their families. ‘Farha’ or ‘Joy’ is another project for bringing happiness to listed families during public occasions. “This includes the Ramadan Meer or Foodstuff scheme, wherein low-income and vulnerable families are provided with food.”

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