Dubai initiatives spread hope and make a difference to lives across the world

Dubai: “Reading books can help us learn and heal. It is like a hospital to the mind,” had been the poignant phrases by then nine-year outdated Maryam Lehsen Amjoun, who had received the hearts of the Arab world when she was topped champion of the Arab Studying Problem, again in October 2018.

She was the youngest finalist out of thousands and thousands of individuals from 44 Arab nations who joined the problem organised by the Mohammad Bin Rashid World Initiatives (MBRGI). When her title was introduced as the general champion, the eloquent and assured woman from Morocco burst into tears. Everybody was moved. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, who was onstage to bestow the award, used his personal ghutra to wipe Maryam’s tears of pleasure, in a really emotional scene.

As reported earlier by Gulf Information, Maryam stated: “I expected to win because I was prepared for this challenge. I have been reading books, summarising them and trying to understand their content.”

Earlier than the award, Maryam was requested by one of many judges about her message to the Arab youth and she or he had confidently replied: “I will inspire them with my experience at the Arab Reading Challenge and will share the challenges I faced and how I overcame them. Reading can help fight poverty and ignorance. It is like a hospital to the mind.”

Right now, at 11 years outdated, Maryam is an distinctive sixth grader, increasing her data by finding out completely different languages and arithmetic. Her mother and father, who're each lecturers, are additionally at hand to supply her full help. “She has become a role model and an icon to young people in Morocco since she was named the Arab Reading Champion,” in response to MBRGI.

Maryam is a studying ambassador. She has visited quite a few colleges, the place she shared her experiences and inspired college students of varied ages to learn and achieve data. She has additionally appeared on a number of TV exhibits to assist increase consciousness on highway security. With the onset of the worldwide pandemic, Maryam used her place to lift consciousness by means of interactive movies for kids, in regards to the precautions and security measures essential to curb the unfold of COVID-19.

Unicef (United Nations Kids’s Fund), the UN company accountable for offering humanitarian and developmental support to youngsters worldwide, has additionally appointed her as an advocate for kids’s rights within the Center East and North Africa area. Maryam stated day-after-day presents her a chance to study one thing new as she stays dedicated to the clever phrases she herself had as soon as stated: “Reading feeds the mind and is a treasure-chest of knowledge. Those who pursue it will thrive, those who neglect it will fall behind.”

Rahma Al Tablawi was born with a congenital coronary heart defect. She was crying incessantly ever since she was born. Her mother and father, who hail from the Kafr El Sheikh Governorate in Egypt, sought the assistance of paediatricians who informed them that she wanted an pressing corrective surgical procedure. However the process had a really low success price and the fee was prohibitive.

Rahma’s mother and father tried in useless to search out assist, at the same time as their daughter continued to stay in ache till she turned six. A ray of hope emerged when Rahma’s father was capable of enrol her within the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Institution’s ‘Nabadat’ initiative in Egypt. Nabadat, which implies heartbeat in Arabic, is an initiative launched by the MBRCHE in collaboration with Dubai Well being Authority, that gives free medical help, surgical procedure and post-surgical care to youngsters whose mother and father can't afford to pay for remedy of congenital coronary heart illnesses.

In 2017, the household was lastly capable of schedule the pressing surgical procedure Rahma desperately wanted. Her father was initially anxious that he would possibly lose his daughter within the working room, however he was comforted by the skilled and extremely skilled ‘Nabadat’ medical employees who put Rahma relaxed and ready her psychologically for the surgical procedure.

Rahma efficiently underwent a crucial six-hour operation and her mother and father had been overcome with pleasure once they had been informed that their daughter wouldn't must stay in ache anymore.

Greater than three years after the surgical procedure, Rahma is now trying ahead to dwelling a protracted life filled with pleasure and success. Her mother and father will endlessly be grateful to ‘Nabadat’ for giving their little woman again her heartbeat.

Mahmoud Waheed, a younger Egyptian engineer, by no means imagined that certainly one of his night walks on the streets of Cairo would lead him to a life-changing expertise. As he was strolling down the town’s neighbourhoods, he heard a plea coming from one of many facet streets. To his shock, he discovered a wounded aged man, in ache and lined with blood. Mahmoud didn't depart him to undergo alone. He bandaged his wounds and tried to take him to a hospital, however the man was not admitted since he neither had a member of the family nor was he carrying any identification doc with him. Mahmoud then took the person to an aged care centre, however its doorways had been shut.

That evening, Mahmoud made a decision to begin an initiative known as ‘Together to Save a Human’. Its intention was to offer homeless aged folks with meals, shelter and medical care. In 2018, he was nominated for the second spherical of the Arab Hope Makers, an initiative underneath MBRGI.

Mahmoud was ultimately named the Arab Hope Maker that yr. Mahmoud stated his win has earned him the respect and belief of Egyptians and Arabs and paved the way in which for him to open 5 further branches of ‘Together to Save a Human’ throughout Cairo, bringing the overall variety of charity branches to seven.

He stated the prize had given him ethical and monetary help that enabled him to fulfil his ambition of being an energetic member within the humanitarian area in Cairo. Within the ensuing months and years, he was capable of develop his venture to accommodate and rehabilitate extra homeless folks earlier than reuniting them with their households.