Sustainable Development Goals

How we contribute: Financial and in-kind aid to families in need, sponsorship of orphans and families, and helping families build an income.

Related initiatives and services:

• Convoys of Goodness: Ramadan supplies, shopping vouchers and food baskets for orphans, widows and people on low incomes.
• Empowering Productive Families.
• Wardrobe of Goodness: collecting clothes, bags and shoes and distributing them to people in need.
• Winter Warmth: winter clothing and blankets for workers.
• Orphan and family sponsorship, Zakat and aid.

How we contribute: Providing food to people in need and saving surplus edible food from waste.

Related initiatives and services:

• Save Food: sites near mosques with refrigerators for food and water coolers, open to all.
• Convoys of Goodness: food baskets before Ramadan.
• Water Giving: water, juice and meals for workers at work sites.

How we contribute: Helping patients who cannot afford treatment or reach it.

Related initiatives and services:

• Treatment for Kidney Failure Patients.
• Dental Clinic: jaw and dental treatment for older patients who cannot afford it.
• Patient Transport Vehicles: taking senior citizens, People of Determination and kidney failure patients to hospitals and clinics.
• Summer of Giving: cold water and drinks for outdoor workers in summer.

How we contribute: The Association began in 1986 as a fund to help students continue their studies, and education remains central to its work.

Related initiatives and services:

• Future Generations: help with school fees.
• Digital Learning: computers for students in need.
• Bag of Hope: school supplies for students from families in need.
• Bridges of Giving: school bags for orphans and people in need.
• Give Me Hope: access to quality education for students in need and People of Determination.
• An Orphan's Joy: school bags, supplies and computers for orphans.

How we contribute: Directing services to those most in need regardless of nationality or religion, and making services accessible to People of Determination.

Related initiatives and services:

• The People of Determination portal.
• Give Me Hope: People of Determination are a priority group in education.
• Empowering Productive Families and People of Determination.
• Water Giving, Summer of Giving and Winter Warmth: serving workers at their work sites.
• Save Food: open to all regardless of nationality or religion.

How we contribute: Strengthening solidarity in neighbourhoods and opening the door to volunteering and community participation.

Related initiatives and services:

• Save Food: sites in neighbourhoods and residential areas.
• The volunteering portal.
• The Community Responsibility Initiatives platform.

How we contribute: Reducing food and clothing waste and spreading a culture of reuse.

Related initiatives and services:

• Save Food: spreading a culture of keeping surplus food and giving it to people in need.
• Wardrobe of Goodness: a green initiative that reuses clothing and reduces waste.

How we contribute: Working with government bodies, private companies and individuals to deliver initiatives.

Related initiatives and services:

• The Community Responsibility Initiatives platform: a door to cooperation with government and private bodies and individuals.
• Patient Transport Vehicles: equipped through a donation from Dubai Islamic Bank.
• Summer of Giving and Water Giving: with local institutions, young people and university and school students.
• Save Food: in partnership with institutions and benefactors.

The Association does not currently work directly on the remaining goals (5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16).