The UAE Volunteers campaign was launched by the Higher National Committee for Regulating Volunteering during Crisis, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
The UAE Volunteers campaign was launched by the Higher National Committee for Regulating Volunteering during Crisis, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. A mere month after its launch, the campaign has attracted a total of 16,502 individuals, including 9,828 field volunteers and 5,306 medical volunteers, from more than 126 nationalities residing in the UAE. These volunteers support medical teams in the field in light of the current circumstances and as part of the ongoing national efforts to counter the spread of Covid-19.
The UAE Volunteers campaign stressed that the priority now is for medical volunteers to support teams in health institutions, quarantine sites, examination centers, and other volunteering areas in the field. The volunteers.ae platform invited citizens and residents who hold a medical degree to volunteer and support health institutions in Dubai.
Obaid Al-Hassan Al Shamsi, Director General of the National Emergency and Crisis and Disasters Management Authority (NCEMA), said that the focus is currently on recruiting medical volunteers to support medical teams and monitor patients in health institutions.
According to Al Shamsi, the required specializations are: "General medicine, internal medicine, anesthesiology, intensive care medicine, general practitioner, family medicine, and emergency medicine”.
Al Shamsi explained that the UAE Volunteers campaign provides, through its volunteers.ae platform, more than 80 opportunities that are open to citizens and residents of various ages and specialties, including 66 field volunteering opportunities to respond to field developments and requirements and help fight Covid-19.
Al Shamsi also pointed out that the platform regularly offers dozens of new field and specialized volunteering opportunities for individuals of different nationalities, with the goal of supporting field efforts, especially in the medical field, in the entire country, and tapping into the volunteers’ expertise and specialized skills to meet front-line needs.
The UAE Volunteers campaign was launched in early April by the Higher National Committee for Regulating Volunteering during Crisis, with the volunteers.ae platform that was the result of a partnership with the Ministry of Community Development and the Emirates Foundation for Youth Development. The campaign is supervised by the National Emergency and Crisis and Disasters Management Authority (NCEMA), in line with its vision to unify volunteerism in the country, promote integration and cooperation between all government and private sectors, enhance community participation to highlight cohesion and cooperation in the UAE, and support national efforts to counter the spread of Covid-19.
This campaign aims to support volunteers in the country, and harness the skills and talents of members of society and involve them in field and virtual volunteering, within an integrated and sustainable system of volunteerism in the country during crises.
The volunteers.ae platform supervised by the Ministry of Community Development, in partnership with the Emirates Foundation, and under the umbrella of the Higher National Committee for Regulating Volunteering during Crisis, offers citizens and residents who wish to volunteer in the UAE Volunteer campaign the opportunity to support various community groups through field or virtual volunteering.
Anyone interested in volunteering can visit the online platform www.volunteers.ae, call VOLAE 800 (80086523), or e-mail info@volunteers.ae.