14/05/2022
Today the world lost a great leader and philanthropist, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi was one of the greatest rulers the world has ever known. A philanthropist in every sense of the word just like his father.
The Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation donate $1.5m to help Palestine refugee students with school supplies in 2019. He gave a grant of $150 million to US Cancer Hospital (MD Anderson Cancer Center ) in 2011. Paid for Zayed Tower at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and Sheikh Zayed Institute at Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC.
In Lebanon, Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation funded many development projects which included the provision of 3,750 heaters and 10,000 food parcels, as well as 30,250 winter clothes, shoes and blankets, benefitting 143,000 refugees in various parts of Lebanon.
In Gaza, the foundation distributed food aid to around 24,000 needy families.
In 2018, the foundation continued to implement Ramadan iftar projects in 50 countries, targeting 750,000 people in none Arab countries, 17 Asian countries and 10 countries in Africa, as well as in Sweden, Spain, Greece, Albania, Switzerland, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Australia, Belarus, New Zealand and the Ukraine.
The Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Children’s Hospital was inaugurated in Mary, Turkmenistan, at a cost of AED110 million, or $30 million.
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan died today at the age of 73.
May his soul rest in peace, May Allah grant him Jannah.
