Sahab Al Khair supports Sharjah’s charitable projects

These donations are then transferred by the company to the SCI’s accounts to support various development projects being implemented in Air Arabia’s destinations around the world. The value of the initiative’s donations during the first half of this year amounted to AED 556,000.

Mohammed Hamdan Al Zari, Head of Projects Sector at SCI, said that the Sahab Al Khair initiative paved the way for donors to interact with the SCI’s projects, which confirms the success of the cooperation between the SCI and Air Arabia in providing a mechanism to attract donations from benefactors wishing to support the SCI’s projects through envelopes provided in all seats of the plane.

He pointed out that the importance of the initiative lies in supporting and implementing a number of projects that address the needs of those in need around the world and reflect the impact of charitable work in supporting developing and poor communities, and instilling the values of humanity among all communities in a manner that is free of any considerations based on religion, gender or colour. 

This is a humanitarian approach that has been entrenched since the founding of the country and is accompanied by the SCI’s message as a global message that serves all of humanity. It is in tandem with the work of Air Arabia, which flies between more than 120 destinations around the world, through which the SCI plants the seeds of the good deeds of donors supporting the initiative.

Al Zari pointed out that since its launch in 2006 until the end of last year 2023, the initiative has succeeded in building 6 clinics and employing 24 others, running 11 medical campaigns that focused mainly on performing surgeries for eye patients as well as patients with severe heart diseases, implementing 8 relief programmes in countries hit by disasters and wars such as relief for the Horn of Africa, Syria, Palestine and Bangladesh, and implementing 8 production projects to support productive families by providing them with tools that suit the craft they master with the aim of enabling them to obtain their living needs from their own earnings, including distributing sewing machines to productive families, fishing boats, and building a vocational education institute with the aim of training hard-working women in embroidery professions within women’s support projects, distributing means of transportation to young people working in the driving profession, providing medical equipment and building homes for the poor, and restoring dilapidated homes in remote areas in countries covered by the SCI’s aid programmes.

This also includes providing vaccinations against meningitis, which is a fatal disease that causes brain damage, in addition to drilling Artesian wells, providing medical equipment for heart patients, running specialised medical campaigns to combat blindness, performing catheterisation and open-heart surgeries, along with distributing wheelchairs for people with disabilities, at a cost exceeding 10.9 million dirhams. 

These projects were implemented through the SCI’s offices abroad, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the country’s embassies in the beneficiary countries, and within the framework of the existing partnership between the SCI and Air Arabia.

The Head of Projects Sector stressed that the success of the initiative came thanks to the cooperation of everyone, whether passengers traveling through Air Arabia destinations who made their donations to contribute to supporting the SCI’s projects or the company’s officials who welcomed this cooperation, headed by Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Thani, Chairman of Air Arabia, as well as the extended thanks to the country’s embassies in the countries covered by the SCI’s projects for the great facilities they provided. He also thanked the SCI’s offices abroad.