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Ramadan Sharing Fridges

“Never put away a good thought. Action it immediately because you never know it could well turn into a massive initiative”. Dutch expat Fikra Yel had a thought of sharing her fridge to workers in the community where she lived, providing food and water. This was four years ago.

Today her thought has turned into a vision. Her initiative – Ramadan Sharing Fridges - is a registered entity under the umbrella of Red Crescent. And from one fridge, the tally now reads a staggering 202 refrigerators placed across various locations in Dubai.

The Ramadan Sharing fridges are about extending your home to the less fortunate and inviting your neighbours and community members to share food/drinks with our community workers. It’s about demonstrating that a small act of kindness can have a positive effect on other people’s life both during and beyond the holy month of Ramadan.

The employees of Dubai office participated in this great initiative this year by visiting a fridge in the nearby areas and supporting this initiative by stocking it up with soft drinks, fresh fruits, laban, fruit juices, biscuits etc. to help our community workers and labourers to have access to free food and drinks during the month of Ramadan.

The Google map for the Ramadan fridges available in Dubai was shared with all the employees based in the UAE. It is amazing to pass by the local fridges and witness the happiness the donations will spread.

Sharing is caring, especially in the communities we do business in.

Partnership with Emirates Red Crescent

Our office partnered with Emirates Red Crescent in the UAE to assist with our Corporate Social Responsibility in the region. The purpose of this collaboration is to enable us as a company to make monetary contributions towards charitable campaigns.

Who is Red Crescent and what do they do?

Emirates Red Crescent supports humanitarian work internationally.
They establish a voluntary culture to increase the community’s role in voluntary work.
They maintain and develop resources to support its role in the fields of humanitarian work.
They develop human capacity in order to achieve readiness and respond to humanitarian calls.
They ensure continuous improvement in the cause and achieve excellence in their humanitarian endeavors with different authorities and organisations.

Where will the donations go to?

Towards initiatives run by Emirates Red Crescent such as Sponsor an Orphan, Relief and Emergency, Domestic Projects and External Projects.

When do we start?

We will start our initiative from Monday, 1 July 2019.

We are excited to work with such a forward thinking organisation and to place many smiles on the people in our community who is in need of help and assistance.

For more information on our CSR initiatives please reach out to Tasniem Titus.