Furthering its mission to empower differently-abled children by providing them with knowledge in accessible formats, Kalimat Foundation, the UAE-based global non-profit, has signed a partnership agreement with the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (ALECSO), a Tunis-based institution operating under the umbrella of the League of Arab States, to further the foundation’s reach through its Ara (‘I see’) initiative to every part of the Arab world.
As part of its CSR initiative and in collaboration with UNHCR, luxury skincare brand, Peacefull has revealed that its 50% sales pledge, which was donated to the refugee agency in August, has helped support 453 families in ten countries around the world, including Lebanon, Yemen, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Egypt, among others.
The Emirates Publishers Association (EPA) signed several partnership agreements during its participation in the 41st Sharjah International Book Fair including Nielsen BookData, a data provider for the book publishing industry that compiles bibliographic metadata and point of sale data for book sales, Sharjah Coop Society and several other entities.
Kalimat Foundation – the UAE-based global non-profit organisation founded by Bodour Al Qasimi, President of the International Publishers Association (IPA) to uphold children's rights to access books particularly in the Middle East, has recently concluded a successful book donation drive of 1500 books across four schools in the Kingdom of Morocco, in collaboration with the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
