AED 919 million: the cost of charitable projects at Fujairah Charity Association in 2019
1,019,228 beneficiaries of Fujairah Charity Association's projects and programmes in 2019
The Board of Directors of Fujairah Charity Association held its periodic meeting yesterday, chaired by H.E. Saeed bin Mohammed Al Raqbani, Chairman of the Board of Directors, with the Board members, where the Board reviewed the agenda, which included the achievements and initiatives realised by the Association last year, 2019, as the total payments made by the Association for its charitable projects reached AED 57,519,919 in 2019.
The number of beneficiaries of the Association's programmes and projects also reached 1,019,228 beneficiaries, including poor and dignified families in need, student assistance, Hifz Al Neama, productive families, People of Determination, patient care, orphans and other charitable projects.
H.E. Saeed Al Raqbani stated that the continuous development the Association is witnessing comes thanks to the combined efforts of benefactors and the government and private institutions that partner with the Association and support its programmes and projects. Among these projects is the Hifz Al Neama project, which the Association implements with the support of H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Fujairah, may God protect him, and which is based on preserving surplus food from events and weddings and distributing it to the poor and needy; the number of meals distributed reached (620,410) meals in 2019.
Al Raqbani added: As one of the fruits of the Hifz Al Neama project, the Association implemented a new initiative in which 60 locations, open to increase, were equipped in most mosques of the Emirate of Fujairah and Dibba, in neighbourhoods and residential communities, with food preservation refrigerators and water coolers, to make it easy for anyone to benefit from surplus food from meals in homes, with the aim of instilling the culture of Hifz Al Neama among members of society at the level of neighbours and the neighbourhood, so that young and old learn from it the culture of preserving blessings.
In addition, there are the projects for developing and rehabilitating productive families, from which 66 productive families benefited in 2019, in addition to 299 female trainees who benefited from the specialised training courses offered by the Association's Productive Families Training and Rehabilitation Centre.
The number of students benefiting from educational assistance in 2019 also reached 2,640 male and female students, to whom the Association provided school supplies, tuition fees, training courses and computers.
He noted that the various charitable projects implemented by the Association last Ramadan included ( Al Meer – Iftar Saem – Zakat Al Fitr – Eid clothing ), and the total number of beneficiaries reached 377,100 beneficiaries in 2019.
The Board also reviewed the Association's work plan and the programmes and initiatives it is implementing in 2020, and these were approved.
At the conclusion of the meeting, H.E. Saeed bin Mohammed Al Raqbani, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association, extended his thanks and appreciation to the people of goodness, righteousness and charity for their continuous cooperation in supporting the Association's projects.