2024-02-22 21:06:19
Dubai (Etihad)
Hope is the key to happiness, the secret to the advancement of human civilization, and an essential force for creating a better future in which everyone enjoys stability and security.
Based on the belief of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, that creating hope in the Arab world is equivalent to creating life, in 2017 His Highness launched the Hope Makers Initiative, the largest humanitarian and community initiative of its kind aimed at… To honor the donors in the Arab world, who seek, through their projects, initiatives, programs, and voluntary campaigns, whether individual or institutional, to address the most important challenges facing their societies, in various fields, to find solutions to them, and to work diligently to improve the reality of their countries, relief the afflicted, and help the needy. Alleviating the suffering of vulnerable groups in society and providing support to disadvantaged groups.
The “Hope Makers” initiative reflects the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, which seeks to establish a culture of hope in our Arab world, spread the values of optimism and positivity, and encourage young people and Arab citizens, women and men, to engage in creating hope and positive change, combating despair and negativity, and taking the initiative. To change their reality, achieve their dreams, and build the future they aspire to.
Since its launch, the initiative has succeeded in attracting a large number of participants from young men and women from various parts of the Arab world who have projects and initiatives through which they seek to help people and improve the quality of life or contribute to solving some of the challenges facing their societies. The initiative worked to highlight and promote these efforts and provide all Forms of support to help them continue doing good and develop their projects to achieve their goals.
Today, as preparations are made to honor the winners of the fourth session of “Hope Makers”, during the closing ceremony held at the “Coca-Cola Arena” in City Walk in Dubai on February 25th, a number of the winners of the Hope Makers in previous sessions remember the moments of their honor by His Excellency. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, considering this honor a milestone in the journey of their charitable and humanitarian work, moving to new horizons of giving, ambition, influence, and achieving great successes in their noble mission to contribute to changing the lives of millions of people.
A unique moment
The Iraqi Hisham Al-Dhahabi, winner of the “Hope Makers” Award in its first session in 2017, described his honoring by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum as a dream come true, and a unique, defining moment in the path of his humanitarian and charitable work, which will remain engraved in his memory forever.
Hisham Al-Dhahabi stressed that winning the “Hope Makers” award contributed to advancing his humanitarian work to new heights. He also recounts with great happiness how the award changed his life and the lives of hundreds of orphans and the elderly and enabled him to fulfill an old promise he made to himself to build a large home to care for orphans after working for years in During a rented house.
Al-Dhahabi explained that the “Hope Makers” award gave him the ability to build “the most beautiful house in Iraq” and house 80 children under the age of fifteen, and 22 young men who are students in the middle school and in colleges and institutes, in addition to providing services to a thousand orphan girls, including educational sponsorships, and all… Their expenses and needs, and it now takes care of the education and needs of 350 children outside the home.
Al-Dhahabi cited a special kind of achievement that he achieved after winning the award, as he was able to open a home for the elderly run by young men who previously lived in “the most beautiful house in Iraq.” Today, they are ensuring the comfort of the elderly through a team they formed under the name “Grandpa at Your Service,” with the aim of searching for… Homeless children or homeless seniors.
Al-Dhahabi pointed to the tremendous momentum created by his winning the “Hope Makers” award, and his transition from one success to another, which was represented by the opening of four branches of the house in the cities of Babylon, Wasit, Basra, and Mosul, caring for about 750 children. Last June, he was also able to achieve another dream of supporting orphaned youth. Through the opening of “Bab Baghdad”, an ambitious project that now attracts 50 orphan young men who manage fast food stores, it has become a well-known destination in the capital.
He pointed out that the “Hope Makers” award gave him great support at all levels inside Iraq, and also recognized his humanitarian projects outside his country, where many people contact him to benefit from his long experience in this field, stressing that the house he opened in Baghdad after winning the award has become a popular destination. For visitors to Iraq.
Inspiring stories
In turn, Kuwaiti Maali Al-Asousi, winner of the “Hope Makers” Award in 2017, confirmed that being honored with the award gave her unlimited ability to expand her humanitarian projects, especially in the Republic of Yemen, and to contribute to changing the lives of millions of people.
Regarding her beginning in her humanitarian work, Her Excellency Al-Asousi said: “I traveled to Yemen on a work mission, but I decided to stay there and devote myself to humanitarian work and creating hope. So I founded the (Tamkeen) initiative in order to improve the quality of life and raise the standard of living of the poor and supported the establishment of non-profit development projects, then I decided to join To the Kuwaiti Direct Aid Society to manage the Society’s relief and development operations in Yemen.
His Excellency Al-Asousi implemented 35 water projects, organized 50 relief campaigns, provided 750 building grants and more than 600 scholarships, and contributed to empowering more than 1,000 families economically and performing more than 16,000 surgeries to combat blindness, in addition to rehabilitating 40 health centers.
Her Excellency Al-Asousi stated that the idea of the award itself contributed to changing her life and her outlook on the nature of volunteer and humanitarian work, as she was introduced to many inspiring stories in the Arab world.
She pointed out that winning the “Hope Makers” award contributed to her moving to new heights in ambition and work mechanisms, after winning the award shed light on the nature of her projects and the efforts of her work team.
Her Excellency Al-Asousi expressed her happiness that her story was approved in the curriculum of the Ministry of Education in the State of Kuwait for the fourth grade of primary school in the “Do a Favor” lesson, as she is the first Kuwaiti woman working in the humanitarian field to have her story placed in the official curriculum of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Education.
Great successes
For his part, Egyptian engineer Mahmoud Waheed, winner of the “Hope Makers” award in 2018, for his humanitarian initiative “With Us to Save a Human Being” said that winning the award led him to achieve achievements that reflected positively on the groups targeted for assistance, as he entered into a partnership with the Ministry of Social Solidarity in the Republic of Egypt. Arabic in some of his organization’s projects and attracting new supporters to the humanitarian organization, in addition to the great assistance his work received from the media, which contributed to mobilizing efforts to advance his work in the wake of winning the award.
“With Us to Save a Human Being” is the first non-governmental organization in Egypt to care for homeless people – according to Mahmoud Waheed. It may not have been greater in terms of capabilities than dozens or even hundreds of humanitarian institutions at the time, but winning the award gave it unlimited horizons and ambition. Tremendous in achieving great results and successes in its mission, especially helping the elderly.
Mahmoud Waheed confirmed that winning the award was a milestone in the effectiveness and expansion of the “With Us to Save a Human” Foundation, as it had two branches five years ago, and now it operates and carries out its mission through five branches.
A new start
The Saudi Ali Al-Ghamdi, “Father of Orphans,” confirmed that honoring him in the third session of “Hope Makers” in 2020 represented a new beginning in his humanitarian work and his noble message of sponsoring and caring for orphans, through a journey full of giving that extended for about 20 years, and left an indelible positive impact on the lives of Thousands of children in the poor countryside of the continents of Asia and Africa, after he dedicated his time and his own money to saving them from suffering, bringing a smile back to their faces and instilling hope in their souls, which gave him deep spiritual tranquility and the ability to continue working and double the number of beneficiaries of his projects, especially on the continent of Africa.
He considered that what the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation is doing, represented by the “Hope Makers” initiative, represents a golden opportunity for the owner of every humanitarian and charitable idea or project, to benefit from the material and moral generosity offered by the “Hope Makers” initiative, and its constant encouragement to all those who have initiatives. The best.
Ali Al-Ghamdi stated that winning the award enabled him to expand his ambitions and the circle of his work on the African continent, and to establish a non-profit organization aimed at supporting and helping those in need (YOUTH CARE GROUP NETWORK INTERNATIONAL), based in Uganda, and carrying out its work in several African countries. After being honored in 2020, he was able to build more… From schools such as “Al-Salam 1” and “Al-Salam 2” in Uganda, in addition to housing, mosques, and commercial stores to support needy families, orphans, and others.
Beginnings
Al-Ghamdi remembered his first steps in sponsoring orphans in the continents of Asia and Africa, and the challenges he faced in saving some money, on his journey to create hope, which led him to remote, poor places in 28 African countries, and enabled him to sponsor more than 7,000 orphans, support 21 orphanages, and open 3 Schools gave 1,200 orphans the opportunity to learn and prove themselves, and a number of those orphans became doctors who provide care for others, which Al-Ghamdi considers a unique achievement because it has profound meanings.
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