100m meals campaign achieves 78% of target
Milestone reached within one week of the drive’s launch
UAE’s ‘100 Million Meals’ Ramadan campaign, which aims to provide food parcels to disadvantaged communities across 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, has achieved 78 per cent of its target within the first week of its launch.
The campaign raised over Dh78 million, equivalent to providing more than 78 million meals, as massive donations continue to pour in from individuals, companies and entities inside and outside the UAE.
Raising more than half of the targeted donations in less than a week since the launch of the campaign reflects the keenness of the UAE community to support the country’s humanitarian efforts.”
Mohammad Al Gergawi | Minister of Cabinet Affairs and MBRGI secretary-general
Distribution under way
Food distribution has already begun in several countries including Jordan, Egypt and Pakistan. Organised by the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI), the campaign aims to secure food parcels that enable disadvantaged families and individuals to prepare their own meals during Ramadan.
Every Dh1 donated helps provide one meal for beneficiaries in targeted countries including Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Pakistan, Egypt, Palestine, Bangladesh, Tanzania and Angola.
Mohammad Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and secretary-general of MBRGI, said: “Raising more than half of the targeted donations in less than a week since the launch of the campaign reflects the keenness of the UAE community — with all its segments and companies — to support the country’s humanitarian efforts to provide relief to people in need across the world.”
The World Food Programme will help provide 20 per cent of the food parcels to refugee camps in Palestine, Jordan, and Bangladesh, while the Food Banking Regional Network is securing food parcels to target groups in 13 of the targeted 20 countries.