UAE

Carl's story

One of our readers, Jennifer, dropped me a line this month, asking for help in attracting both practical and financial support for her family who face a very difficult situation following a tragic accident suffered by her son Carl, three years ago. From the very first month of launch, ExpatWoman has supported charitable initiatives through the site, and sometimes through the events, but we don't usually make collections through the coffee mornings; sadly there is no limit to the number of worthy causes and we prefer to leave you to make your own choices. Thus I hope you will not mind this exception and will feel as moved by Carl's mother, Jennifer's story as I was.



One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. Take My Junk's simple mission of collecting unwanted furniture, clothing and electrical goods from commercial and residential properties to sell and raise money, to buy food and bare essentials for the workers who built Dubai.

In recent months they have  collected over 200 truck loads of unwanted goods,  now Take My Junk is spreading the word into schools and colleges, looking for help in creating collection points, collection facilities and volunteers to help in the worthwhile initiative.  Already there's been a great response from students who are keen to volunteer their services.

If you want to arrange a collection or help in any way, contact 050 1794045, e-mail takemyjunkUAE@gmail.co
 

Beautiful People - A Dubai Art Studio for people with special needs!
 

We are a non-profit organisation, dedicated to providing special education, therapeutic services and vocational training.  Your donation of good quality, gently-used clothing, toys and household items is needed.  Drop off at our Centre, located on the SZR just before Safa Park.  For more info: www.dcsneeds.ae or ring 04 344 0966.


 Riding for The Disabled Association of Dubai  (RDAD)   At RDAD we offer a therapeutic horseback riding programme to help special needs children develop their physical, cognitive and emotional abilities. RDAD is a not for profit organisation and relies totally on donations of time and money from individuals and organisations to keep the programme running. We are launching a set of educational workshops aimed at the equestrian community and profits from these workshops will be going to  benefit RDAD and the children that ride with us. Website: www.rdad.ae

 


UAE Professional Expat Goes Blind UAE Professional expat goes blind and needs us to help his family. When we don’t know where to turn, we come back to you, so that you can help us to help a family in distress and heading for extreme tragedy, unless we put our hearts and hands together to help. For his story could be ours.  For more informationplease go to: www.thevalleyoflove.com
 

Since April 2007, The Mission to Seafarers has been operating a support boat, the Flying Angel (the first of its kind in the world), which goes out to ships in the anchorage off the East Coast of the UAE. She operates 7 days a week during daylight hours and services on average 75 seafarers per day (over 2000 per month). The Flying Angel offers email and telephone facilities, a welfare officer to listen to and help solve seafarers problems, book and DVD libraries, a medical clinic and a place to chat, relax and unwind. It has quite literally been transforming seafarers lives. For more information please go to our website: www.angelappeal.com. See here for their latest fund raiser. why not pop along and support them?

 

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The Psychiatry Department at Rashid Hospital,
 

If you want to get fit, get going and do something worthwhile at the same time, Gulf for Good has the answer! G4G is a Dubai-based charity, founded in 2001 under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum.  Open to all Gulf residents and nationals, our adventure challenges around the world raise money for handpicked children’s charities in the areas where the challenges take place. Gulf for Good, the UAE-based charity announces its next challenge: ‘Lebanon Mountain Eco-Trail’ from May 7 to 14, 2010.  Cuban Challenge in November  - a 5 day cycle around Cuba.  Money raised will be donated to the Haiti Fund  Sign up now - limited places 
 

The Emirates Arthritis Foundation (EAF), the Middle East’s only patient support group, based in Dubai was launched in April 2006. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for arthritis sufferers through leadership in the prevention, control and cure of arthritis. We achieve this by organizing patient education sessions throughout the Emirates, establish community programs such as aqua-aerobics and yoga, and importantly we have an endowment fund for less privileged patients so that they are able to receive the premium health care services that they deserve.  Email -info@arthritis.ae  or Phone - 04-4231470 

It has been a busy month for Helping Hands and all their volunteers - have a look to see what they have been up too. Roger and Elle Trow have lived in the Gulf since 1980 and witnessed many changes in the lifestyles of the residents, but the conditions under which the lowest paid workers live and work has always saddened them.  In October 2006, they determined that they would  "make a difference", and from this resolve was born "HelpinghandsUAE". If you would like to see how you can help please visit -  www.helpinghandsuae.com

 

DAC is a local non-profit organization. We have a school for 43 children and young adults with Autism, parent support groups and community education programs. We currently have 80+ children on our waiting list. 70% of the centers running costs are covered through fundraising. Volunteers and support welcome!v  www.dubaiautismcenter.ae
 

Al Ihsan Charity, based in Ajman , caters to a special layer of society of women who have lost their spouses due to divorce, abandonment, imprisonment, etc.  These women, from many countries ( India , Bangladesh , Sudan , Pakistan , Jordan , etc.) are left to raise their children and hope that they can also send them to school. Click here to find out more about the Back to School Programe.

 

'Dubai Cares' was launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to raise money to help educate 1 million children in poor countries. The campaign is Dubai's contribution to the U.N. Millennium Development Goals for providing Children's Primary Education to every child by 2015 and expresses the emirate's will to play an effective role in securing a better tomorrow for future generations.