Dubai Charity Association

Founded in 1980, the Dubai Charity Association is a nonprofit organisation that operates both locally and internationally. Through programme awards and in-kind donations, the association's work focuses on sponsoring orphans and low-income families, constructing mosques, schools, and hospitals, delivering emergency relief and disaster aid, providing medical assistance and healthcare, and implementing water well and sanitation projects. Through these efforts, the association aims to improve the lives of vulnerable communities and promote sustainable development.

Related sustainable development goals

  • No Poverty
  • Zero Hunger
  • Good Health and Well-Being
  • Quality Education
  • Clean Water and Sanitation
  • Affordable and Clean Energy

Focus areas

Focus sectors

  • Development
    • Financial services
      • Development finance
        • Sustainable finance
    • Economic development
      • Community improvement
  • Health
    • Healthcare access
    • Medical support services
    • Public health
      • Water access, sanitation and hygiene
  • Humanitarian
    • Emergency relief

Focus populations

  • Low-income people
  • Orphans
  • Working poor

Focus geographies

  • Africa
  • Central Asia
  • East Asia
  • Middle East
  • North Africa
  • South Asia
  • South-east Asia

Partners

  • Al Ihsan Charity
  • Al Jalila Foundation
  • Community Development Authority
  • DP World Foundation
  • Dubai Club for People of Determination
  • Dubai Land Department
  • Dubai Police
  • Emirates Foundation
  • Emirates Nature - WWF
  • General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs
  • Leos Development.
  • Lesaffre Gulf
  • Mashreq Al Islami
  • Mohammed bin Rashid Housing Establishment
  • Permanent Committee for Workers' Affairs
  • Tadawi Hospital
  • TECOM Group
  • Thumbay Group
  • Watani Al Emarat Foundation

Financials

Funding model

  • Foundation-administered programme awards
  • In-kind gifts

Primary funders

  • Dubai Islamic Bank
  • Endowments and Minors’ Trust Foundation
  • Pure Gold Group

Funding source

  • Corporate
  • Fundraising
  • Philanthropic

Operations

Key staff

  • Ahmed Al Suwaidi, Executive director
  • Ali Othman, Project manager
  • Esraa Marzouk, Senior partnership executive
  • Rawan Saad, Head of partnerships and communications
  • Wesam Oraibi, Head of external projects department

Board members

  • Dr. Abdullah Mohammed Bousnad, Chair
  • Mustafa Karam

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