{"id":34680,"date":"2021-01-09T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T08:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=34680"},"modified":"2021-01-09T12:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T08:06:27","slug":"dewas-youth-council-organises-awareness-and-interactive-virtual-events-in-collaboration-with-local-and-international-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dewas-youth-council-organises-awareness-and-interactive-virtual-events-in-collaboration-with-local-and-international-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"DEWA’s Youth Council Organises Awareness And Interactive Virtual Events In Collaboration With Local And International Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)\u2019s Youth Council organised 15 initiatives and programmes for more than 550 virtual<\/a> participants in Q4 of 2020, in collaboration with DEWA\u2019s local and international partners. The Council held virtual brainstorming sessions across all DEWA\u2019s divisions to meet the needs of youth and listen to their views and aspirations. Youth happiness towards key activities by the council reached 94% during this period.<\/p>\n

DEWA works in line with an integrated strategy to unleash the potential of youth to be fully engaged in achieving the UAE Vision 2021 and Dubai Plan 201 for Dubai to be a city of happy, creative, and empowered people. This also achieves DEWA\u2019s vision to become a globally leading sustainable innovative corporation. DEWA\u2019s workforce includes 1,865 young employees between the ages of 18 and 29, around 15% of the overall workforce, with young men and women forming 66.54% and 33.46% respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cDEWA\u2019s top management strives to support the Youth Council and provides an environment for youth to nurture their ideas and talents. It also develops initiatives and projects that focus on their interests. Since its establishment in 2017, the Youth Council is committed to empowering youth and enhancing their capabilities. Its strategy is based on five main themes: National Identity and Values, Continuing Education, Professional Development, Future Accelerators and Innovation; and Sustainability,\u201d said Aysha Mohammad Alremeithi, DEWA\u2019s Youth Council President.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Youth Council and the Women\u2019s Committee at DEWA organised a panel discussion entitled \u2018The Role of Youth and Women in the Sector of Utilities in UAE, towards Achieving Sustainability.\u2019 It was attended by more than 350 individuals around the world. The Youth Council organised a youth circle entitled \u2018Emirati\u00a0youth in the energy sector and beyond the next 50 years,\u2019 in collaboration with the Federal Youth Authority and Dubai Youth Council. The Council organised the 7th session of Youth Talk programme in collaboration with \u2018Village Story\u2019 to learn how to grow microgreens. The Council also held an interactive virtual workshop entitled \u2018Local soap making,\u2019 inspired by local natural elements. The workshop was held in collaboration with the Emirati training company \u2018Sxill\u2019. The council held a youth debate on the impact of working from a distance on their creativity. In cooperation \u2018With Hope\u2019 organisation, the Council organised the virtual session \u2018Occupational Burnout.\u2019 DEWA\u2019s Youth Council also collaborated with the Society of Engineers\u2019 Youth Council to organise a specialised workshop on shaping the future and clean energy entitled \u2018Solar Energy: Present and Future Perspectives.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)\u2019s Youth Council organised 15 initiatives and programmes for more than 550 virtual participants in Q4 of 2020, in collaboration with DEWA\u2019s local and international partners. The Council held virtual brainstorming sessions across all DEWA\u2019s divisions to meet the needs of youth and listen to their views and aspirations. Youth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34682,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34680\/revisions\/34682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}