The opening was attended by Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the Arab League, Excellency Ambassador Hossam Zaki, Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Office of the Secretary-General of the League of Arab, Excellency Ambassador Dr. Haifaa Abu Ghazala, Assistant Secretary General, Head of Social Affairs sector at League of Arab state, in addition to Excellency Moza Al Akraf Al Suwaidi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Community Development, their excellencies assistant undersecretaries at the Ministry, directors and officials, global village visitors.
Her Excellency Hessa Buhumaid viewed the microenterprises projects of the participating families in the pavilion and quality of the offered goods to reflect the UAE's pioneering and distinguished experiences in supporting productive families and achieving future aspirations and distinguished marketing ideas.
The participation of Emirati productive families in "Al Sanaa" pavilion comes within the framework of a project adopted by the Ministry and support of the Global Village administration as part of social responsibility, and the Ministry's keenness to invest in community development through home-based and micro projects for families, for the purpose of achieving economic and social gains within the framework of empowering the Emirati family and confirming their stability and cohesion.
Afra Buhumaid, Director of Productive Families Department at the Ministry of Community Development, revealed that "Al Sanaa-14" pavilion at Global Village brings together this season (67) Emirati productive families of which women constitute about 90% of these families, whereas (59) families projects are run by women.
Afra Buhumaid pointed out that (10) young people participated in productive projects in the current season of Al-Sanaa pavilion, in addition to (6) senior citizens, (6) social security beneficiaries and (1) project for people of determination. These productive families display different types of products such as: food products, perfumes and scented bukhoor “dukhoon”, clothes and accessories, printed items, artworks, and handicrafts.
Afra Buhumaid stressed the keenness of the Ministry of Community Development to stimulate the participation of productive families with more competitive and qualitative ideas, based on the development vision pursued by the Ministry, in an effort to enhance the competitiveness and success of microenterprises and home based projects within "Al-Sanaa" project, to empower all the members of the society: women and men, youth and students, senior citizens and people of determination, who have qualitative and exceptional opportunities, to market their products and projects in a globally competitive environment.
It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Community Development has worked during the past few years to complete the electronic link with the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship, Customs & Ports Authority and the Ministry of Economy and a number of relevant local government authorities, to speed up the transactions and requirement of the Emirati productive families and smoothen their access to the best and easiest services in order to achieve their commercial and economic goals, and accelerate economic development, starting with the family within the scope of home and micro commercial projects.
"Al Sanaa" pavilion at the Global Village is one of the permanent marketing exhibitions provided by the Ministry of Community Development on an annual basis to the productive families, over a period of 6 months, with the support and partnership of the Global Village as part of their keenness to promote economic development for the participants. “Al Sanaa" pavilion began in 2009 and continues until now whereas the number of participations has reached (887) productive families in (13) past editions until the end of 2021 while the number of displayed products reached (351,000) products.
The participation of Emirati productive families in "Al Sanaa" pavilion at the Global Village represents an ideal opportunity to stimulate competition and development of these projects, enhance the financial income of family participants, encourage and exploit young energies and talents and invest them in business ideas that can be developed. The purpose of the pavilion is to achieve support and development of Emirati families based on the principle of family cohesion and community cohesion.
Al Sanaa is a sustainable project aimed at improving the economic level of Emirati productive families. Till now, the number of Emirati productive families joining "Al Sanaa" project at the Ministry of Community Development reached (2,962) who manage various commercial and professional projects known as microenterprises.
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