Dubai Chamber recognises that healthy and vibrant communities are key to sustaining a healthy and vibrant business community. We work hard to encourage a number of community initiatives and support various causes. This helps us improve society, develop the skills of our employees, enhance the practices of businesses, develop job skills among youth and encourage entrepreneurship in Dubai while also fulfilling our mission.
Each year we support a number of causes in cash or through the provision of facilities and time of our staff. In 2010 for example we fund raised and supported various organizations working to support special needs, chronically ill children, Haiti Earthquake victims, Pakistan floodwater victims and our local sailour community in the neighbouring Dhow harbor as well as contracted staff. Our employees also engaged in various activities like giving gifts, donating blood, cooking for a charity souk, selling raffle tickets, sharing knowledge on green building, cleaning-up the beach, as well as participating in a vertical marathon, walkathon and soccer tournament to raise money for charity. We also trained staff about UAE culture and language, so that they can better integrate and contribute to this country, and endorsed various campaigns like Earth Hour, Public Transport Day as well as World Health and Safety at Work Day.
Our biggest contribution to the community remains our ongoing support to the University of Dubai which we founded in 1997 to develop local business talent. This includes providing 47 student scholarships, a campus and other facilities to assist this institution in developing hundreds of individuals each year.
