The Household Improvement Basis (FDF), in collaboration with Majalis Abu Dhabi beneath the Presidential Court docket’s Residents and Neighborhood Affairs Workplace, organised a dialogue discussion board at Al Khatim Majlis titled ‘Introducing FDF Providers and Gathering Neighborhood Insights.’ The occasion underscored the Basis’s dedication to partaking all neighborhood segments, with a specific deal with senior residents and residents.
The discussion board performed a pivotal function in FDF’s ongoing efforts to strengthen direct public participation, set up core ideas of neighborhood engagement, and improve service supply via field-based knowledge, all aimed toward selling household and social well-being. The occasion was attended by H.E. Mariam Mohammed Al Rumaithi, Director Common of the FDF, H.E. Abdulrahman Al Baloushi, Director of the Strategic Planning and Institutional Improvement Division, H.E. Mariam Muslim Al Mazrouei, Neighborhood Providers Division Director at FDF, and H.E. Wafa Al Ali, Director of the Household Improvement Division at FDF, alongside households from various segments of society.
Selling household stability
In her opening remarks, H.E. Al Rumaithi emphasised the significance of the decree issued by His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE President and Ruler of Abu Dhabi. H.E. affirmed that the decree embodies H.H. Sheikh Mohamed’s humanitarian imaginative and prescient and assist for the FDF, strengthening the Basis’s mission to advertise household stability via consciousness and counselling providers. It additionally prioritises the care and empowerment of senior residents in recognition of their invaluable contributions to the nation.
H.E. Al Rumaithi additionally prolonged gratitude to H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, ‘Mom of the Nation,’ Chairwoman of the Common Ladies’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of FDF, for contendingly supporting social and humanitarian initiatives and for her management in advancing the Basis’s applications. H.E. famous that FDF’s initiatives are aligned with the nation’s strategic imaginative and prescient and the directives of management, aimed toward reinforcing household and neighborhood stability. H.E. additional asserted that H.H. Sheikha Fatima’s visionary method continues to encourage efforts in household empowerment, senior citizen care and establishing values of compassion and concord all through society.
H.E. Al Rumaithi mentioned: “This occasion underscores the Basis’s unwavering dedication to partaking with all neighborhood members, listening to them and understanding them. It’s based mostly on our perception that the neighborhood performs a pivotal function in shaping the social providers we provide to reinforce their high quality of life. The discussion board offers us with a key alternative to establish their necessities and design applications to align with their goals, thus contributing to establishing a secure household setting and a cohesive society based on actual values and a preventive, proactive method to social work.”
H.E. added, “We selected Al Khatim because the venue for this discussion board in recognition of the individuals of this area and our want to construct a robust relationship with them. By means of this occasion, we search to hear, to attach and to share a imaginative and prescient that helps us redefine our providers to raised serve households right here.”
As well as, H.E. Al Rumaithi highlighted that this occasion displays FDF’s imaginative and prescient to foster neighborhood partnership and set up direct neighborhood channels with the neighborhood. H.E. added, “This comes from our perception that service high quality commences with an correct understanding of actuality and a radical analysis of neighborhood members’ necessities. Our unwavering dedication ensures that your voices form our priorities and information the route of our efforts.”
Moreover, H.E. highlighted that senior residents stand as a key pillar of our society and FDF considers it their obligation to hear and perceive them and supply them a respectful and safe life that meets their targets and preserves their standing via its initiatives. H.E. Al Rumaithi additionally famous that FDF’s providers are solely via the lively participation of aged individuals since their opinions information the Basis’s path and their consciousness helps its mission to enhance the standard of life for all members of the family. H.E. urges everybody to actively contribute in the direction of constructing a extra cohesive and affluent society.
Her opening remarks additionally make clear exceptional efforts made by the Basis’s employees, expressing her honest gratitude and appreciation for his or her steadfast dedication in the direction of executing formidable applications, conducting high-quality occasions and delivering distinctive providers to senior residents and residents. Moreover, H.E. praised their distinctive efficiency, which displays the spirit of FDF and serves as a key driver of its sustainable improvement journey.
Through the conclusion, H.E. Al Rumaithi expressed heartfelt appreciation to the senior residents, whom she described as a blessing and a beacon of tolerating values and generosity. H.E. mentioned, “Your presence is a mannequin we glance as much as, a supply of inspiration as we attempt to construct a future grounded in consciousness and unity. We’re right here to serve you, assist you, and meet your wants in a means that strengthens your stability and honours your function in society.”
Key Milestone
His Excellency Abdulrahman Al Baloushi, Director of the Strategic Planning and Institutional Improvement Division at FDF, mentioned, “The Basis locations nice significance on research and discipline surveys as key scientific instruments to study in regards to the precise wants of goal teams. This underscores our fixed efforts to advance our providers, aligning with the realities of society. The sphere research on the wants of Al Khatim residents signified a key milestone in making a planning methodology based mostly on info and knowledge. Its outcomes helped us to grasp service priorities within the space, key social points and areas that require enchancment, particularly in aged care, neighborhood engagement and providing extra inclusive and sustainable applications.”
Moreover, H.E. Al Baloushi highlighted the Basis’s ongoing efforts to reinforce its providers based mostly on the outcomes of the research. It’s working to develop implementation plans that meet the targets of the world’s residents and mirror its imaginative and prescient of providing built-in, human-focused providers. H.E. additionally famous that discipline surveys act as a key driver in fostering knowledgeable decision-making and in designing applications and initiatives that enhance institutional efficiency and drive sustainable social improvement, in keeping with the imaginative and prescient of clever management and the aspirations of H.H. Sheikha Fatima, to strengthen household and societal stability.
Supportive Atmosphere
As well as, H.E. Mariam Muslim Al Mazrouei, Director of Neighborhood Providers Division, famous that FDF’s neighborhood service centres considerably contribute in the direction of reinforcing the Basis’s presence throughout Abu Dhabi. It performs a key function in reinforcing household cohesion and empowering various segments of society by providing complete providers based mostly on the perfect preventive, developmental and counselling practices.
H.E. Al Mazrouei additionally defined that these centres present a complete social setting that addresses the necessities of households throughout all levels of life. It performs an lively function in embedding values of duty and unity whereas reinforcing nationwide identification and a way of belonging via numerous actions that promote communication and assist the social bonds throughout the neighborhood.
Aside from offering providers, these centres additionally function open, interactive platforms that foster neighborhood participation. H.E. added that these platforms encourage people to share their opinions and ideas for enhancing applications and providers. H.E. Al Mazrouei additional highlighted that FDF’s workforce intently observe societal modifications and continually replace the providers to make sure a long-term optimistic impression and to lift societal consciousness.
An built-in system of providers
H.E. Wafa Al Ali, Director of the Household Improvement Division at FDF, underscored that the Basis offers an built-in system of neighborhood providers and applications designed to satisfy the wants of households and senior residents. Pushed by its mission to assist neighborhood members and enhance their high quality of life, the system has included preventive, developmental and awareness-raising initiatives centered on psychological well being, household cohesion and social empowerment. Moreover, the system affords specifically designed providers for senior residents, ladies, youth and kids via FDF’s centres throughout Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Al Dhafra areas. It utilises superior skilled and technological means to make sure the best ranges of effectivity and impression, thus highlighting the Basis’s imaginative and prescient of making a cohesive society with knowledgeable residents and companions in sustainable improvement.
H.E. added, “By means of these conferences, we purpose to determine an environment friendly participatory method that prioritises neighborhood members in the course of the decision-making course of. It contributes to growing a versatile service ecosystem that’s sensible, whereas additionally being outlined by innovation and variety.” H.E. highlighted that these conferences discover key concepts and provoking neighborhood practices that may be reworked into significant neighborhood initiatives. Such initiatives strengthen sustainability and contribute to FDF’s strategic imaginative and prescient to assist households and instil optimistic values in society.
H.E. mentioned, “The general public discussions held throughout this discussion board stand as a cornerstone within the efforts to enhance providers. It offers a platform for exchanging worthwhile suggestions and presenting proposals inside an setting that promotes neighborhood collaborations. Such an method paves the way in which to assemble worthwhile insights derived from the real-time wants and targets of people. Furthermore, it permits FDF to listen to instantly from the neighborhood and reinforce its efforts to reinforce program and repair high quality and promote a tradition of constructive interplay within the design of improvement insurance policies and initiatives.”