{"id":45475,"date":"2021-12-12T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T08:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=45475"},"modified":"2021-12-12T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T08:37:19","slug":"better-world-fund-hosted-stars-of-sports-and-entertainment-at-a-two-day-event-at-expo-2020-to-raise-awareness-on-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/better-world-fund-hosted-stars-of-sports-and-entertainment-at-a-two-day-event-at-expo-2020-to-raise-awareness-on-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Better World Fund Hosted Stars Of Sports And Entertainment At A Two-Day Event At Expo 2020 To Raise Awareness On Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

A two-day event marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities took place at the Sweden Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai concluding with a star-studded gala dinner and award ceremony at the Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach. Distinguished guests attended the event including H.E.\u00a0Xavier Chatel,\u00a0Ambassador\u00a0of France to the UAE, Mr. Patrick Chalhouband Mrs.IngieChalhoub, H.E Dr\u00a0Thani\u00a0Ahmed\u00a0Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade and Minister in charge of Talent Attraction and Retention at Ministry Of Economy, UAE, H.E.\u00a0Nathalie Kennedy,\u00a0Consul General\u00a0of France in\u00a0Dubai, Hugo Henry-Ceylan, Director of\u00a0Institut\u00a0Fran\u00e7ais, H.E. Dr Raphael Nagel\u00a0 Founder and Chairman Of The Board\u00a0at\u00a0The Abrahamic Business Circle\u00a0and Mrs. Veronica Nagel.<\/p>\n

The events were organized by the Better World Fund, a nonprofit organization based in Paris that uses art – particularly cinema – to highlight global issues.<\/p>\n

At the event\u2019s gala dinner, an auction raised money for Dubai Cares to support the education of underprivileged children in India. In addition, an exciting new partnership was signed between Paris-Sarclay University and Better World Fund.\u00a0 In this partnership, Better World Fund will explore the most innovative and inclusive solutions related to education, arts, science, and sustainability in the world, via a global, cross-border talent and data platform: Academia for a Better World.<\/p>\n

At the red-carpet gala dinner, activists were honored for their work, including jazz singer Melody Gardot, an advocate of music therapy for the disabled, who spoke via video link, and the UAE’s H.E. Noura Bin Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister for Youth and Culture, represented by H.H. Mubarak Al Naki.\u00a0As part of the event, the UAE’s Ministry of Culture and Youth and InstitutFran\u00e7ais screened a four-minute animated film about life with disabilities, Dear Mother by FadelAlMheiri and Pierre Filmon.\u00a0Alexander Bodart Pinto, an entrepreneur, author, and founder of Wheeling Around the World, and Sandrine Martinet-Aurieres, gold medalist in Judo at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, were among the inspiring global speakers.<\/p>\n

RemigioMaradona discussed possible solutions to eliminating malnutrition and presented an ambassadorship to Manuel Collas de la Roche, President and Founder of the Better World Fund. Team Angel Wolf, a non-profit foundation based in the UAE, was also present at the event to encourage the inclusion of people with disabilities, and to encourage society as a whole to embrace people with disabilities.For more information, please visit: https:\/\/www.betterworld.fund\/events<\/a><\/p>\n

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A two-day event marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities took place at the Sweden Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai concluding with a star-studded gala dinner and award ceremony at the Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach. Distinguished guests attended the event including H.E.\u00a0Xavier Chatel,\u00a0Ambassador\u00a0of France to the UAE, Mr. Patrick Chalhouband Mrs.IngieChalhoub, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45475","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\/45475","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=45475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45479,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45475\/revisions\/45479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}