‘100 Days of Giving’ launched for students

The National Happiness and Positivity Programme launched an initiative dubbed 100 Days of Giving, targeting UAE private and public school students, in cooperation with the UAE Ministry of Education, the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec), and Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA).

The nation-wide initiative aims to instil and cultivate the value of giving back to the community through an array of positive-interaction activities with students, which help schools, along with parents at home, to build a values-based generation of children, characterised by giving.

Overseen by the National Happiness and Positivity Programme, the launch of the 100 Days of Giving initiative forms part of the Giving is Happiness programme, which includes a number of national initiatives, such as the #1MillionActsOfGiving, the Happiness Journey, and many more.

Ohood Bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Happiness, stressed the importance of planting the value of giving in the hearts of future generations as an essential cultural component of UAE society, which was established on open-heartedness, compassion, and humanitarian values.

The initiative aims to involve students, parents, and educational and administrative bodies within schools in a series of activities that help shape students’ personalities and encourage them to adopt giving as a way of life, the Minister continued, adding that this, in turn, creates an appropriate educational and family environment that establish this value as a lifestyle.

The Minister of State for Happiness asserted that giving is a deep-rooted value in UAE society, and an overarching theme of the government’s operations and its international relations.

The UAE has become a global symbol for giving and charity, she added, praising the partners who supported the National Happiness and Positivity Programme to launch the 100 Days of Giving initiative, namely: The UAE Ministry of Education, the Abu Dhabi Education Council, and the Knowledge and Human Development Authority in Dubai.

Students are called to document their participation in the initiative’s activities in special notebooks that will be handed out to them, while school-led activities are to be documented using the hashtag #100_Days_of_Giving on Twitter.

The top 10 student projects will be recognised with certificates of gratitude, handed out at an awards ceremony.

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