Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives’ social projects come to help of 83m people in 2020

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives’ social projects come to help of 83m people in 2020

Sheikh Mohammed with Sheikh Hamdan, announced the Year in Review 2020 at a special event. File

More than 83 million people in 82 countries benefited from Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives’ (MBRGI) humanitarian and social projects in 2020, the foundation’s annual report has revealed.

Amid the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, MBRGI, the region’s largest philanthropic foundation, carried out Dhs1.2 billion worth of humanitarian, social and developmental projects to aid the vulnerable and empower disadvantaged communities in the face of the biggest health crisis of the century.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, announced the Year in Review 2020 in a special event, held at The Union House in Dubai, to highlight the far-reaching influence of MBRGI’s initiatives and activities during 2020.

Sheikh Mohammed said, “the global COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that