{"id":23665,"date":"2023-07-24T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=23665"},"modified":"2023-07-24T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:28:12","slug":"union-coops-mou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/07\/24\/union-coops-mou\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Coop and Dubai Women\u2019s Association sign MoU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dubai-based retailer Union Coop has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dubai-women&#039;s-association\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dubai Women\u2019s Association<\/a> to support its initiative<em> Our Challenges Make the Difference.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The initiative aims to train and qualify people from the category of \u2018People of Determination&#8217;, especially those with intellectual challenges, to develop their ideas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Subsequently, it aims to integrate them into society and help them obtain suitable employment per their abilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Managing director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2023\/05\/09\/union-coop-to-support-emirates-nature-wwf\/\">Union Coop<\/a>, Abdulla Mohammad Rafie Al Dallal, said: \u201cThrough our support to Dubai Women Association, we aim to provide a suitable environment and care to the people with special needs, fulfil our commitment to support public welfare institutions and help in the development of an infrastructure that meets the aspirations of the wise leadership to reach number one position.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;It is worth noting that the Union Coop collaborates and works hand in hand with numerous governmental and private institutions, as part of its strategy to serve the community.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In May, the retailer signed a MoU with \u2018Emirates Nature-WWF\u2018 in cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), an international environmental non-profit organisation.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Director of Dubai Women\u2019s Association, Al Khawaneej Branch, Dubai, Fatima Ahmed Al Abdullah, said: \u201cThe signing of the MoU came through our agreement with Union Coop, on focusing towards the \u2018People of Determination\u2019 segment, which is the core of the society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;It is all about raising the man of the future with apt leadership qualities, in line with the vision of our wise government and our young nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAE retailer Union Coop has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dubai Women\u2019s Association to support its initiative <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":21046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3966,4114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23666,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23665\/revisions\/23666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}