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The Reality of Charitable Work in the United Arab Emirates: Areas, Challenges, and Solutions |
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PP: 747-755 |
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doi:10.18576/isl/130402
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Author(s) |
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Huda Mohammed Atif,
Husein M. Alothman,
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Abstract |
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| In this study we aimed to identify the most important areas that need the support of charitable associations in the United Arab Emirates, the most prominent challenges facing charitable work, and the most prominent solutions that can contribute to overcoming these challenges. A number of (12) employees of the Al-Ihsan Charity Association were chosen, and the researcher relied on the qualitative approach based on focus groups. The study found that the most important areas that need the support of charitable associations at present are: patients visiting in hospitals and supporting them, implementing educational, health, social, and economic projects, providing support for youth initiatives and entrepreneurial projects, widows, divorcees, refugees, wives of prisoners, and families with limited income, sponsoring orphans and people of determination (people with special needs) and people searching for work, perpetual charity and water supply. The most prominent challenges facing charitable work in the United Arab Emirates, have been manifested in the inability to prioritize and coordinate efforts, the incapacity to deal with advanced technologies and leverage them, the lack of necessary funding to support charitable organizations and their various activities, in addition to the lack of interaction between society and charitable associations, and a lack of societal awareness about the importance of achieving the principle of social solidarity. As for the key solutions proposed by the study sample to overcome the aforementioned problems, they include increasing spending and seeking investment endowments to support the activities of charitable organizations, as well as providing incentive systems to encourage the private sector to participate in funding charitable work. The study recommended to Develop follow-up and supervision of the work of institutions and charities to improve their performance and increase their ability to influence society, Enhance education and training for workers in charitable associations and institutions to make them more capable of giving in order to achieve goals better, Follow up on beneficiaries of charitable societies and institutions, listen to their opinions, and take them into consideration in development and improvement processes and Providing financial support to charitable societies and institutions from donor institutions and the private sector.
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