Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Dubai’s Vice President and Ruler, has begun a program to donate one billion meals to the world’s impoverished and needy.
One Billion Meals, which was announced last month, urges individuals to donate money to help feed the hungry. It will continue to run till the goal is reached. Sheikh Mohammed wrote on Twitter that the project will be the world’s largest hunger-fighting operation.
“We will be able to understand the pain of 800 million people going to bed hungry every day during Ramadan,” Sheikh Mohammed remarked. “A person who sleeps with a full stomach while his neighbor is hungry is not a believer,” the campaign’s slogan reads.
In nations where the need is highest, food parcels are given in partnership with the UN World Food Program, the Food Banking Regional Network, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment, and humanitarian organizations.
The One Billion Meals campaign aims to help the world’s most disadvantaged people in 50 nations, contributing to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 2 of ending hunger by 2030. A 10-Million-Meals initiative benefited communities affected by Covid-19 around the UAE during Ramadan 2020, and last year’s 100 Million Meals campaign delivered food kits and quick smart vouchers to millions of people across four continents.
The number was attained thanks to the generosity of 185,000 donors, who comprised people and corporations from both inside and outside the UAE, and was organized by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives.