The Emirates Food Bank holds a group iftar for more than 5,000 workers in Dubai
Dubai, 5 April / WAM / The Emirates Food Bank, one of the initiatives of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, held a group iftar for more than 5,000 workers of different nationalities. A large segment of society, including citizens and residents, participated in its preparation and preparation, in Zabeel Park. In Dubai.
Iftar is one of the initiatives of the Emirates Food Bank campaign that it launched at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, aiming to distribute 5 million meals to those eligible within the country.
Manal Bin Yarouf, head of the executive team at the Emirates Food Bank, confirmed that the collective humanitarian breakfast organized by the bank for the workers category reflects the bank’s message and approach as a humanitarian system that raises the value of feeding food and delivering it to its beneficiaries with the highest quality, and embodies its commitment to promoting the principle of social responsibility and the values of goodness, giving, and work. Humanitarian and social solidarity bonds, as well as gratitude and appreciation from the bank and community members to the workers group for their efforts.
Ben Yarouf said: “The humanitarian activities and initiatives implemented by the Emirates Food Bank translate its goals of encouraging society to actively participate in volunteer and humanitarian charitable work, in addition to encouraging institutions and companies from various sectors to contribute generously to their achievement, and providing meals and food baskets to various societal groups, in addition to To instill the values of competition in doing good and volunteering to serve the community.”
She pointed to Dubai Municipality’s direct supervision of food safety through monitoring the standards used by the Emirates Food Bank in all steps of receiving, transporting, storing and distributing food, providing the highest levels of food safety for all beneficiaries of the bank’s initiatives.
It was the Emirates Food Bank; The “A Thousand Cooking” program was organized in cooperation with Taya Art Production Company, through which an elite group of national and resident chefs were gathered to prepare more than 20,000 iftar and suhoor meals that the bank distributed to beneficiaries during the holy month.
It is noteworthy that the bank’s initiatives during the month of Ramadan aimed to provide 166,666 meals daily to beneficiaries through a number of initiatives and sub-campaigns that included the “Your Breakfast is on Us” campaign, the “No Food Waste” initiative, “The Thousand Cooking,” “Food Baskets,” and “Iftar with workers”, in addition to implementing 25 awareness programmes, while the number of strategic partners supporting the bank’s initiatives and campaigns reached more than 350 strategic partners from food establishments, hotels and companies.
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