The ladies have been encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship throughout sectors
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Abu Dhabi authorities have spotlighted the achievements of 51 inspiring Emirati girls answerable for furthering innovation and entrepreneurship throughout numerous sectors.
The initiative was spearheaded by Tamkeen and startAD — the Abu Dhabi-based startup accelerator powered by Tamkeen and anchored at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) — alongside the Abu Dhabi Authorities Media Workplace (ADGMO) and The US Mission to the UAE.
The chosen Emirati girls had been honoured with a commemorative e-book profiling their private journeys and experiences of their discipline titled ‘Emirati Ladies Achievers’ on the occasion on Tuesday night.
The primary copy of the e-book was obtained by Dr. Maitha Al Shamsi, Minister of State, on behalf of Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, and within the presence of:
– Rima Al Mokarrab, Chair of Tamkeen and Trustee of NYU
– Hana Barakat, Senior Affiliate Director of startAD
– Nihal Shaikh, Assistant Director of Communications at startAD
– Robin Solomon, Counselor for Public Affairs on the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
The distinguished occasion was held underneath the patronage of Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the Basic Ladies’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Household Improvement Basis, in celebration of Emirati Ladies’s Day.
‘Inspiring Actuality, Sustainable Future’
The awardees had been felicitated throughout a ceremony that included a set of keynotes and the official unveiling of the commemorative e-book Emirati Ladies Achievers.
This was adopted by a roundtable dialogue on the importance of, and the tales behind, the 2022 Emirati Ladies’s Day theme introduced earlier this yr by Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak’s workplace: “Inspiring Actuality, Sustainable Future.”
Dr. Maitha Salem Al Shamsi, Minister of State, stated: “Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak is a job mannequin for all of us, and we’re honoured to comply with in her footsteps and proceed on her path in direction of establishing a affluent future for our beloved nation and all humanity.”
She additional praised the contributions and efforts of Emirati girls within the workforce and in direction of the nation’s improvement.
“Sheikha Fatima has established the values and ideas that help girls”, Al Shamsi defined.
“She has enabled them to acquire the best ranges of schooling, encouraging them to take part in numerous points of financial, political, and social life.
She has additionally employed all capabilities to make Emirati girls occupy a complicated place among the many girls of the world.”
Al Shamsi added that this is able to not have been doable with out the sensible management of the Founding Father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who possessed the imaginative and prescient for ladies to be a key associate within the progress of the UAE.
Dr. Maitha added: “Sheikha Fatima realised that caring for ladies and getting ready them for his or her life and their future is important.
That improvement can’t be achieved with out their participation, so we should present them with science and information, empower them, and improve their capabilities to contribute constructively.
This is not going to solely contribute to financial improvement, however social improvement as nicely. She advocates for ladies empowerment to give attention to the moms, the educators, and those that construct the longer term generations.”
A Technology of Future Leaders
Dr. Al Maitha highlighted the contribution of those Emirati girls in direction of innovation within the UAE, crediting them for paving the best way for future generations of inspiring girls to attain much more spectacular achievements.
Rima Al Mokarrab, Chair of Tamkeen and Trustee of NYU, stated: “In tribute to our founding father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and with the management of Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Emirati girls throughout all sectors are serving to to chart the UAE’s path of progress.
At the moment, they’re academics, diplomats, scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, and astronauts. These exceptional Emiratis are an inspiration to us all. They signify the following era of leaders and proceed to sort out a few of the world’s largest challenges.”
Assistant Director of Communications at startAD, Nihal Shaikh, stated: “The UAE has seen an energetic historical past of robust, resilient, visionary, and inspirational girls who’ve paved new paths of social, cultural, and financial progress. Because of their efforts, we now have a treasure trove of established and rising function fashions who’re constructing a greater future from the bottom up.”
“Emirati girls now maintain main positions throughout the nation and play an instrumental function within the nation’s financial and social prosperity”, he added, “together with its push for sustainable improvement.”
With innovation being a central pillar of the UAE’s plans to construct a extremely aggressive financial system, girls can prepared the ground.”
Daleya Uddin, Head of Public Affairs and Outreach on the US Consulate Basic Dubai, stated: “The US Mission to the UAE is proud to associate with startAD to rejoice Emirati girls achievers who’re advancing the UAE’s agenda for ladies’s empowerment. We’re thrilled to recognise these inspiring leaders as they contribute to the success of the UAE’s financial improvement by way of innovation and creativity.
She added additional: “With the help of the US Mission to the UAE, startAD has applied the Academy of Ladies Entrepreneurs (AWE) coaching program within the nation, which has supported 44 UAE girls entrepreneurs in rising their companies since 2020.
AWE provides enterprising girls the information, networks, and entry they should launch and scale profitable companies. We look ahead to persevering with to work with UAE-based organisations to advertise girls’s financial alternatives.”
The ladies collaborating within the marketing campaign, who shared their tales and achievements, expressed their satisfaction within the UAE’s regular steps in direction of a sustainable and knowledge-based financial system.
Mona Al-Hashmi, Incubator Chief on the Authority of Social Contribution, Ma’an, commented: “The UAE has established itself as a pioneer for improvement within the Arab world. I’m optimistic and assured that additional progress and progress await us at native, regional, and world ranges. I dream that the UAE will attain the best ranges of gender equality within the financial and social fields.”
Of her aspirations for the following 50 years, Al-Hashmi added: “My aim is to contribute and play a number one function on this journey for constructive, sustainable improvement.”
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