Mohammad Bin Rashid announces 5m Ramadan book campaign

Dubai Ruler says campaign will provide five million books to needy students in Arab world

His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, meets students at the School of Research Science in Dubai in this file photo.

Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Sunday congratulated everyone on the occasion of Ramadan.

Shaikh Mohammad also announced a campaign to provide five million books to needy students in the Arab and Muslim world, as well as those in refugee camps.

The Reading Nation campaign will provide #5MillionBooks for refugee students and students in schools in need around the World.

HH Sheikh Mohammed (@HHShkMohd) June 5, 2016

Shaikh Mohammad said that the move to feed young minds is a step toward ending poverty.

The fastest way to end poverty is to eliminate ignorance. We plan to move from feeding the hungry to nurturing minds pic.twitter.com/ALSn44QRQ1

HH Sheikh Mohammed (@HHShkMohd) June 5, 2016

He urged everyone to support the initiative. “We invite businessmen, public and private institutions to join us in shining a beacon of hope from the UAE readingnation.ae,” he said in a post on Twitter.

 

Source:: Gulf News

Mohammad Bin Rashid announces 5m Ramadan book campaign

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