1 Billion Dishes campaign intends to offer food assistance to impoverished and also undernourished in 50 nations
The 1 Billion Foods campaign, the biggest food contribution drive of its kind in the area, has actually accumulated 76 million dishes within simply 6 days.
Organized by Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum Global Efforts (MBRGI), the campaign gives food assistance to the impoverished and also the undernourished in 50 nations worldwide, particularly susceptible teams of kids, evacuees, displaced individuals and also sufferers of catastrophes and also dilemmas.
Within simply 6 days of the campaign, 45,491 contributors and also 98 have actually added 76 million dishes, which along with the 220 million dishes accumulated throughout the 100 Million Dishes project, brings the overall variety of dishes accumulated to 296 million dishes. Circulation of dishes have actually started in 6 nations, consisting of India, Lebanon, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and also Egypt.
The 1 Billion Dishes project improves the success of the 100 Million Dishes project, which ran throughout Ramadan in 2014 and also surpassed all its targets to gather 220 million dishes and also disperse them worldwide. The target of 1 Billion Foods campaign is to gather an added 780 million dishes and also disperse them to 50 nations worldwide.
His Excellency Mohammed Al Gergawi, Secretary-General of MBRGI, claimed: “The actions we have actually obtained to the 1 Billion Foods campaign introduced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed container Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice Head Of State and also Head Of State of the UAE and also Leader of Dubai, and also the payments accumulated from contributors throughout the UAE, consisting of a large range of organizations and also people, are rooted in individuals’s honest duty and also altruistic dedication.”
Exactly how to contribute
Benefactors can add to the 1 Billion Foods campaign via the complying with contribution networks: the project’s main internet site: www.1billionmeals.ae; financial institution transfer to the project’s account at Emirates NBD, number: AE300260001015333439802. Benefactors can additionally decide to contribute Dh1 a day via a month-to-month membership by sending out “Dish” or “وجبة” through text to 1020 on the du network or 1110 on the Etisalat network. Contributions can additionally be made via project’s phone call facility through a toll-free number 8009999.
