Mohammad Bin Rashid announces 5m Ramadan book campaign

Dubai Ruler says campaign will provide five million books to needy students in Arab world

His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, meets students at the School of Research Science in Dubai in this file photo.

Dubai: A Ramadan campaign to distribute 5 million books to needy children in refugee camps and schools around the world was launched on Sunday.

 Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai, launched the campaign called "Reading Nation" on his Twitter account.

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The Reading Nation campaign will provide #5MillionBooksfor refugee students and students in schools in need around the World.

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The campaign is part of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives and is another initiative through which the UAE expresses its passion for serving humanity.

In previous years, the UAE launched campaigns to feed the hungry, quench the thirst of the thirsty and now it is nurturing the mind and the soul during the holy month of Ramadan. Shaikh Mohammad said that the campaign to feed young minds is a step toward ending poverty.

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The fastest way to end poverty is to eliminate ignorance. We plan to move from feeding the hungry to nurturing minds

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He urged everyone to support the initiative. "We invite businessmen, public and private institutions to join us in shining a beacon of hope from the UAE readingnation.ae," he said in a post on Twitter.

“In some countries 30 children share one book, it is our cultural and religious duty to support knowledge seekers wherever they are,” he tweeted.

The campaign will provide one million books to support educational programmes that are carried out by UAE humanitarian organisations abroad, two million books to provide knowledge and science at refugee camps and another two million books for libraries in 2,000 schools in the Arab and Islamic worlds.

People can donate bysending SMS messages, by wiring money to specific bank accounts, or by donating through the campaign’s website or at donation stands in various malls.