Epigraph: Righteousness is not that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous are those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the Prophets and spend their wealth, for love of Him, on the kindred and the orphans and the needy. (Al Quran 2:178)

Source: The Gulf Today

DUBAI: Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has launched a Ramadan campaign which aims to clothe 1,000,000 deprived children around the world.

The campaign will continue until Sept.19, which falls on UAE’s Humanitarian Work Day, and marks the 9th anniversary of the death of the late President Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

The new initiative aims to collect donations during the Holy Month of Ramadan to supply clothing for 1,000000 deprived children around the world and support them in the difficult circumstances in which they live.

Separately, the activities of the 17th Dubai International Holy Quran Award were launched on Wednesday featuring lectures for men and women under the theme of “Peace Upon You Prophet Muhammad,” under the auspices of Sheikh Mohammed, according to a report by Nadia Sultan.

At the launch of the ‘clothe 1 million children’ drive, Sheikh Mohammed emphasised that goodness and giving have become a consistent legacy marked by the goodness of the… continue reading at gulftoday.ae