Social Welfare (2)

Faisal Muhammad Alshammari

29 May 2023

Housing is of particular importance to the wise leadership, as no occasion or a few months pass without a package of housing benefits being announced, whether through the Zayed Housing Program federally, or local housing programs.

Yesterday, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, approved the approvals of 2000,1 citizens for new housing loans, as part of the Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme with a total value of AED 6.85 billion, preceded by the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, in his capacity as Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, to allocate a budget of AED 4.76 billion to develop integrated housing and community neighborhoods, providing approximately <>,<> homes and residential land within five years.

The approval of His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, launched a package of incentives that enhance family stability and social security, and drive the economy, growth and urban development.

These huge budgets contribute to providing suitable housing for citizens, enhancing family stability, reducing the burden of providing a housing unit, and developing projects to provide integrated recreational service and community facilities, which enhances the integrated city system that also promotes the development of smart city models in the country, to achieve comfort and stability for its residents, which is reflected in the quality of life and work, and achieves the vision of the development leadership.

The comprehensiveness of construction and development projects to include mosques, schools, public parks and green spaces (the lungs and breathing spaces of cities), to provide the highest sustainable standards of human service and to ensure stability and family well-being throughout the country, is an important element that distinguishes the UAE from other countries. The wheel of the economy is also stimulating and accelerating in turning, and creating job opportunities through operating companies and employment of all kinds, which consolidates the societal role by providing job opportunities and implementing development projects.

I was pleased and heartened to start studying and implementing the launch of predictive packages for housing services, which I recommended through my work as an assessor of institutional excellence, digital maturity in several sessions and events, and our awareness of the leadership's interest in this aspect, especially that the program, which bears the name of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may God rest his soul, continues to achieve the purpose for which it was established. We recall, as His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said, Sheikh Zayed's saying: "Money perishes and life perishes, but working for the homeland remains and is immortal."

Looking forward to more? Certainly, our leadership has sustained development, and we are a people who are only satisfied with leadership, so we look forward to developing innovative services directed to needy families, retired veterans, divorced women, widows, orphans and families of martyrs, taking into account the welfare line that we hope will be measured by the economic authorities, and drawing the features of its axes by the leadership of the Ministry of Community Development, and its priorities meet the Ministry of Infrastructure, a coherent predictive package that deserves to be in the name of the founding father, and reflects his visions of social welfare and family security. May God have mercy on Zayed. May God protect the UAE and its people.

Management Consultant & Digital Transformation

Certified Institutional Excellence Expert

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