e7 Girls Summit: Daughters of the Emirates

We are proud to sponsor the first Emirates NBD e7 Girls Summit in Dubai. The e7 Summit is a year-long program that takes 5 young women aged 18-25 from each of the seven Emirates (3 Emirati and 2 longtime residents) to be inspired by UAE community leaders, trained through design thinking, and connected with mentors. Emirates NBD provided a workshop on financial literacy to the participants.

The participants are working in teams to develop community projects. On 13 June 2015, the teams will pitch their projects to Emirates NBD where we have earmarked AED 100,000 of seed funding for the projects.

• Exchangers

  Emirates NBD teamed up with Volunteer in the UAE to provide our employees an opportunity to exchange their time to make a positive impact in our community through the Exchanger program. Exchanging time to volunteer for a good cause is the most rewarding way to give back to our community. As one of the oldest banks in the region and as a national bank, we owe it to our community to contribute and harvest a positive seed in society

  

• Little Feet Program

  The Little Feet Program is a community-focused initiative that was developed and run by Emirates NBD. The program aims to foster education and sports talent among underprivileged children in the UAE.

  

  The program offers children 20 football coaching sessions to improve their football skills and to learn new skills the importance of teamwork. The football sessions are conducted by Football Association certified coaches. The children also take part in 10 classroom sessions, where they are taught various topics like hygiene, nutrition, self-discipline, and conflict management.

  

  The program is run in partnership with Ahdaaf, the leading indoor football services provider in the UAE, and Action Care, A leading NGO that works on educational development program in the Middle East.

  

• Nature Lovers

  Nature Lovers is an environmental educational programme for school children, aimed to provide them with an insight on waste management in the UAE. The programme is run by Peter Milne, an environmental education consultant, who visited 10 schools in February and March 2015.

  The programme kicked off on 4 February 2015 at Jumeirah Baccalaureate School, teaching 3-5 year old Nature Lovers about the importance of the environment and how they can make a difference. The sessions are 30 minutes long and use two soft toy characters, Camel and Turtle, to enforce the children’s understanding of what happens.

  The children also learn the ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ philosophy and participate in a recycling activity where they sort out their recyclables, allocating waste into piles of plastics, papers and metals.