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ENGAGE Dubai

Organised as part of the Center for Responsible Business’s Strategic Partnership Programme, ENGAGE Dubai aims to provide active support for Dubai businesses to fully understand and act on their role in community development by building strategic partnerships with community organisations in the Emirate and to transfer skills from companies to the wider community.

Process

ENGAGE Dubai has four main elements which happen throughout the year July - June:

1. November - The ENGAGE Dubai group has identified Health as a new key theme to focus on. They are organising a Health Fair in late November to raise the awareness of health issues especially in the workplace and to encourage employees and employers to think about these issues in order to increase business productivity.

2. February - Inclusion of people with special needs in the workplace – The ENGAGE group have partnered with Al Noor training centre for children with special needs and have contributed more than 1000 volunteer hours to running the main fundraising event for the centre. Al Noor is a non-profit organization which provides educational support and services for children with autism, Down’s syndrome, cerebral palsy and other learning difficulties.

3. April/May - Youth and sustainability education – ‘Faculty for a day’ is a program which invites corporate volunteers to lecture students at the University of Dubai, imparting real world experience and views on sustainability, Global Warming and business ethics all in the context of the UAE.

4. June - The ENGAGE Dubai group joined 24,258 volunteers internationally as part of Give & Gain Day 2011. 207 volunteerssupported people with special needs and supported with social empowerment of 205 vulnerable people in the community.

In addition, the ENGAGE Dubai group have enabled 1500 volunteers to take part in the Ministry of Health's Blood donation drive.

Partner: The Centre for Responsible Business, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Companies:

1. ABB FZ-LLC
2. Al Ghurair Investment- LLC
3. Aramex
4. Barclays Bank
5. CHEP- Equipment Pooling Systems
6. Chicago Maintenance and Construction
7. Clifford Chance
8. Crown Relocations
9. DLA Piper Middle East LLP
10. Dnata
11. Dubai Properties Group
12. Dubai Aluminum (DUBAl)
13. Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC)
14. EnPark
15. FEDEX
16. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
17. GE Energy FZE
18. Hilton Dubai Jumeirah
19. Horeca Trade
20. Khadamat
21. KPMG
22. Liquid of Life
23. Mahsreq Bank
24. QBG Services
25. Serco
26. SRB-UAE
27. Starbucks
28. TNT
29. Unilever
30. Union National Bank
31. WSP
32. Xpertize United
33. Zayed University – ICE