Suqia UAE’s Board of Trustees holds its first meeting for 2025

The Board of Trustees of the UAE Water Aid Foundation (Suqia UAE) held its first meeting of 2025, chaired by HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Suqia UAE. The meeting was attended by HE Fahad Abdelrahman bin Sultan, Deputy Secretary General for Development and International Co-operation at Emirates Red Crescent and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Suqia; HE Sultan Mohammed Al Shamsi, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Development Affairs and International Organisations; Prof Ahmed Ali Al Raeesi, Acting Vice Chancellor of the United Arab Emirates University; Nasser Lootah, Executive Vice President of Generation at DEWA; Waleed bin Salman, Executive Vice President of Business Development & Excellence at DEWA; Dr Yousef Al Akraf, Executive Vice President of Business Support and Human Resources at DEWA; Mohammed Abdulkareem Al Shamsi, Acting Executive Director of Suqia UAE; and Humaid Abdulla Al Hammadi, Acting Secretary of the Board.

“For the tenth consecutive year, Suqia UAE continues its efforts to achieve the wise leadership’s directives to alleviate the suffering of the disadvantaged in various countries of the world, and to reflect the lofty principles of Islam and the noble values of the UAE society based on mutual support, good deeds and social solidarity. In the UAE’s ‘Year of Community’, we intensify our co-operation with our local and global partners to promote social values and the spirit of the teamwork to ensure clean and safe water for disadvantaged communities around the world,” said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Suqia UAE.

The meeting discussed the organisation’s annual Ramadan campaign. The campaign aims to distribute water bottles during iftar in mosques and Ramadan iftar tents, as well as food baskets to families in need, in collaboration with 18 local charities. The Board also reviewed Suqia’s new initiative, launched during the Holy Month of Ramadan, which enables the community to donate water bottles to select mosques across Dubai.

The meeting highlighted the results of Suqia’s projects to provide clean drinking water to about one million people in Tanzania, in co-operation with Emirates Red Crescent. To date, more than 500,000 people have benefited from Suqia’s projects in Tanzania. Suqia further aims to complete the project and reach one million beneficiaries during the third quarter of 2025 through the implementation of 157 projects. The meeting also focused on the latest developments of the fourth cycle of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award. With total prizes of USD 1 million, the award – which is supervised by Suqia UAE – encourages the development of new and innovative technologies for the purification and desalination of water using renewable energy, including solar, wind, biomass, hydroelectric power, osmosis and geothermal energies.