Dubai Cares kicks off its Back to School edition of Volunteer Emirates

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Dubai Cares kicks off its Back to School edition of Volunteer Emirates. Hundreds of volunteers gather at Al Boom Tourist Village to help pack thousands of school kits for Syrian children.   Read the full Gulf News article: http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/society/dubai-volunteers-pack-school-kits-for-syrian-children-1.2045180  See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Hundreds of volunteers, including families and their children, gathered on Saturday at

00:10Al-Bum tourist village to help pack thousands of school kids bound for conflict-affected

00:15Syria.

00:16The activity is part of the Dubai Cares Volunteer Emirates 2017 campaign.

00:20The school kids will be distributed to 50,000 displaced Syrian children currently living

00:25in Jordan, ahead of the beginning of the new school year.

00:28It's a sense of giving and I think my kids also need to learn this.

00:32So I want them to do a lot of volunteer work.

00:35I find that it is really something they need to learn.

00:38It's a wonderful way for us youngsters to spend our energy and for the less fortunate.

00:42We wanted to be closer to the needed people and they offered the opportunity so we registered

00:48as soon as the ad came on.

00:50We are part of the team all together to be able to do that today and very happy.

00:53It is really good as it is Ramadan I was able to get more blessings from God so I would

00:58like to do this more.

00:59It's so good especially since it's Ramadan, it's a month of giving, so time is precious

01:05and we are giving our time to this wonderful cause.

01:07I wanted to help a lot because I've been seeing what's going on around the world so I want

01:12to help out.

01:13It's a pleasure to be a part of Dubai Cares, it's a wonderful initiative and the people

01:17are doing a brilliant job.

01:18This is a very good initiative that Dubai Cares is taking up.

01:21I have been in the part of this for about two years and I would like to take up more

01:26initiatives.

01:27ARIQ AL GURJ, Chief Executive Officer at Dubai Cares, kicked off the initiative and

01:32joined the volunteers in packing the school kits.

01:35Let's show Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Kahwai, Fujairah, all the Emirates

01:40and Ras al-Khaimah what volunteering is all about and it's all about you guys.

01:44Thank you very much.

01:45Organizers expect a total of 3,000 volunteers to help pack the school kits until June 22.

01:50Dubai Cares has partnered with Save the Children for the distribution of the school kits.

01:54AYRISH EDEN-BELYAZA FOR GULF NEWS.

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