100 Million Meals drive passes over 57m mark in 5 days

Dubai - The tally counter on 100millionmeals.ae has been moving non-stop as donations kept pouring in since the campaign’s launch on April 11.

With the ‘100 Million Meals’ campaign now past its halfway mark — reaching over 57 million meals in just five days — boxes of love have started arriving in Jordan, Egypt and Pakistan.

Refugees, orphans, widows and families happily received their boxes filled with flour, rice, lentils, sugar, oil, dates and tea, all the essentials they need to prepare hearty meals throughout the holy month of Ramadan.

The tally counter on its website 100millionmeals.ae has been moving nonstop as massive donations kept pouring in since the campaign’s launch on April 11. Every Dh1 donated meant one meal for the less fortunate.

The campaign — that is open to the public within and outside the UAE — is inviting one and all to contribute that will distribute 100 million meals in 20 countries, including Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, Pakistan, Angola, Uganda and Egypt. The drive is an expansion of last year’s locally held ’10 Million Meals’ campaign that helped Covid-hit communities across the UAE.

Its organiser, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI), is collaborating with international and local partners in each of the beneficiary countries to ensure the swift delivery of food parcels.

Three villages and neighbourhoods in Pakistan’s Islamabad have started receiving their care packages, with the efforts of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment (MBRCH), in collaboration with the UAE embassy.

With some of the fund raised from the drive, the UN World Food Programme will distribute cash vouchers sufficient to provide 20.8 million meals in refugee camps in Jordan over the next six weeks.

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