Maersk Oil Qatar, the country’s largest offshore oil producer and Vodafone Qatar have come together to help address one of Qatar’s most pressing challenges – road safety. Hundreds of students at Park House English School in Doha have benefitted from a week-long road safety event, featuring one-to-one coaching and a state-of-the-art road safety simulator, that sought to highlight positive road behaviours among young people.

Road accidents are fast becoming a global epidemic,…

Saahtain Foods, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, gave 15,000 Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) to the UAE Red Crescent. The UAE Red Crescent thanked Saahtain Foods for this unique and innovative donation of Tayyib Meals, a brand of Saahtain Foods especially designed for Humanitarian and Disaster Relief.

An additional 5,000 meals were given to UAE Red Crescent on behalf of Darvesh Group as part of the group’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiative to support the Tarahamu…

If we look at CSR now and few years down the line, the questions are going to be asked primarily on did it really create an impact on the ground?

The answer will come from Social Audit. Only when you evaluate the programmes on the ground and find out the lasting impact it has left will answer to the question whether CSR helped in furthering the developing agenda of the nation and that should actually be the primary focus of CSR.

It is important for the policy makers to create a…

Consider these trends: 92% of employees’ social connections don’t follow the brand they work for

Shares on social media by employees has an impact of 8 times than those done by companies

About 33% of employees post messages, videos and pictures on social media about their employer without any encouragement from the employer.

65% of people globally would prefer to work for an organization with a powerful social conscience

It is evident from the above that not just the…

More than 30 employees from Tamani Marina hotel, the leading hotel in family tourism in the United Arab Emirates, participated with families, children, government agencies and private institutions in the march of Dubai Cares for Education in 2015, which was organized by Dubai Cares in support of education in developing countries.

Walid Al-Awa, general manager of Tamani…

Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), one of the pioneers of corporate social responsibility initiatives in Bahrain, provided sponsorship support for the Second Bahrain International Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Conference/Exhibition. 



Held under the kind patronage of Energy Minister Dr. Abdul Hussain bin Ali Mirza in the period February 9-11, the theme for the Second Bahrain International Corporate Social Responsibility Conference and Exhibition is "Beyond…

BRJ Recruitment International, the Dubai-based arm of Bab Rizq Jameel, is participating in the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre’s (DMCC) first Career Fair, which will take place at the DMCC today (Feb. 12). 



BRJ Recruitment International is a pioneer in executive search, selection and recruitment of specialist, and other managerial, talent, providing recruitment services to candidates and corporate clients across the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT)…