Dubai Electrical energy and Water Authority (DEWA) actively encourages its workers to have interaction in voluntary and humanitarian work. This helped DEWA’s workers to report 14,528 volunteer hours in humanitarian and group initiatives, benefitting 4,763,973 individuals within the UAE and overseas within the first half of 2024. DEWA launched 19 social initiatives throughout this era as a part of its social duty and efforts to realize a steadiness between financial, environmental and social targets. That is in accordance with an institutional framework for group service.
“We work in line with the clever directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and the Dubai Social Agenda 33. We proceed our journey to advertise the voluntarism and humanitarian work and to make a sustainable impression. DEWA is dedicated to finishing up its social obligations, enhancing the cultural and humanitarian points of the UAE and Dubai.
Humanitarian work is well-established in DEWA’s coverage. DEWA adopts an built-in technique for social duty based mostly on the UAE’s noble ideas and values in giving and social cohesion. DEWA is eager to mirror these humanitarian values in all its operations and actions.
We offer all wanted services to assist DEWA’s workers give again to our group, consolidate the bonds of a mutually supportive and cohesive society in Dubai and to embody the lofty ideas of Islam and the genuine values of Emirati society, that are based mostly on goodness, philanthropy and compassion,” mentioned HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA.
Between 2013 and 2023, DEWA launched 438 social initiatives via which its workers recorded 232,973 volunteer hours in humanitarian and group initiatives, benefitting many international locations around the globe. In 2023, societal happiness in the direction of DEWA reached 93.55%.
In step with its efforts to consolidate a tradition of volunteering amongst its workers, DEWA’s iVolunteer programmes allow DEWA’s workers to study volunteering initiatives, programmes and actions, in addition to their outcomes.
They’ll join and doc their volunteering hours to redeem factors and obtain prizes. This meets the necessities of the Dubai Authorities Excellence programme. Furthermore, DEWA’s Volunteer Diploma enhances the talents of contributors in all points of volunteer work. It prepares them to handle volunteering programmes domestically and globally, as properly grow to be trainers in DEWA’s Volunteer Management Programme.
Meer Al Khair Ramadan marketing campaign 2024
DEWA’s workers volunteered within the Meer Al Khair Ramadan marketing campaign 2024, which was launched by DEWA in co-operation with Al Ihsan Charitable Society in Ajman, to offer fundamental meals provides to households with restricted revenue, through the Holy Month of Ramadan. The worker contributions resulted within the assortment of 831 containers of fundamental meals provides.
Zayed Humanitarian Work Day
Along side Zayed Humanitarian Work Day, DEWA launched an inside marketing campaign to offer its workers with the chance to take part in sustainable charity work in lots of international locations worldwide. This yr, the marketing campaign aimed to construct Zayed Al Khair Properly in Malawi to learn over 10,000 individuals. It additionally aimed to offer a mosque, a clinic and a college with clear vitality in Benin village.
Furthermore, DEWA participated in organising and distributing each day Iftar meals in several areas in Dubai, in co-operation with Watani Al Emarat Basis, with 129 workers selling the spirit of social cohesion within the Holy Month of Ramadan.
Coaching Programme for the kids of DEWA’s workers
DEWA’s coaching programme goals to have interaction the kids of DEWA’s workers to volunteer within the social programmes and initiatives that DEWA organises. This helps them to accumulate new abilities. Since its launch in 2027 and till the third quarter of 2024, the programme has attracted about 100 volunteers, recording 4,457 volunteer hours.
‘For Generations to Come’ initiative
DEWA has launched the third version of its humanitarian initiative ‘For Generations to Come’. This initiative goals to arrange and distribute 2,500 college luggage to schoolchildren from households with restricted revenue, offering them with the mandatory help to realize tutorial success. This follows the success of final yr’s version, which distributed 1,700 college luggage. The initiative has witnessed lively participation from DEWA’s subsidiaries, in addition to many authorities and personal sector entities.
The College Bag initiative
As they do yearly, DEWA workers volunteered to purchase college luggage, stationary, and tablets/iPads for college kids with restricted revenue, in addition to orphans and college students of dedication, in collaboration with a number of public welfare associations.
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