UAE Business: Expo Live benefits 5.8 million-plus people worldwide – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Expo Live benefits 5.8 million-plus people worldwide – Gulf Digital News

More than 5.8 million people, including farmers, traders, students, teachers, doctors, patients and people of determination, have benefited from the work of 140 social entrepreneurs supported under Expo Live.

 

Expo Live is Expo 2020 Dubai’s global innovation and partnership programme.

 

The bold and ambitious Expo Live grantees – named ‘Global Innovators’ – have committed themselves to making their communities and our planet a better place, and were chosen from a pool of 11,000-plus applications from 184 countries, highlighting the programme’s global engagement.

 

Projects within the programme have since helped more than one million individuals worldwide receive medical assistance and counselling, playing a crucial role in communities during the pandemic. 

 

Agricultural innovations have improved the livelihoods of 760,000 farmers worldwide, with 611,000 individuals also given the chance to advance their education and upskill thanks to new ways of sharing content online and offline.

 

Sustainability focused efforts have had significant positive environmental impacts: more than 190,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide have been averted from entering the atmosphere; and thanks to agricultural innovations and cost-efficient ways of planting trees in degraded areas, 3.6 million hectares of land – an area roughly the size of Belgium – has been restored.

 

Reem Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation