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Ramadan with Sawaed Zayed
The annual Ramadan campaign since 2018: iftar for drivers and workers, the Ramadan council, blood donation, the Ramadan league
Our role
Swaed UAEThe association runs the whole campaign: fundraising and sponsorship, daily packing at its headquarters, distribution teams at the junctions with the police, the council programme, and since 2025 a delegation that takes the same campaign to Egypt with Misr El Kheir. On the platform the campaign is recorded event by event: in 2024 the packing and distribution teams logged 621 verified hours, in 2025 the Ramadan league in Al Bidya 571 hours, and in 2026 the forum in Fujairah City Centre 1,648 hours.
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The programme
PartnerEvery Ramadan since 2018 the association turns the month into a season of giving in Fujairah and the Eastern Region. Under the slogan "Zayed's goodness lives in Zayed's children", volunteers pack and hand out iftar meals to drivers before sunset at the main junctions, to workers in the industrial areas and to families, and the association's annual Ramadan forum adds a council of lectures, a family ghabqa, blood donation, a youth football league and suhoor for those on duty. The press counted 39,000 people reached in the first three years.
Sponsors and partners over the years: Sheikh Ahmed bin Hamad bin Saif Al Sharqi (first edition), Fujairah Police and Kalba Police, the Ministry of Health and Prevention and Fujairah Blood Bank, Fujairah Culture and Media Authority (Bait Al Fan), Fujairah businessmen, the Emirates Council for Balanced Development, and Misr El Kheir Foundation in Egypt
Where we work
9| Fujairah Court junctionIftar for drivers before sunset |
| Association headquarters, MraisheedDaily packing |
| Al Hayl industrial areaMeals for workers, Ramadan 2020 |
| KalbaDistribution with Kalba Police |
| Bait Al Fan, Fujairah FortGhabqa and lectures of the Ramadan forum |
| Lulu Mall FujairahBlood donation with Fujairah Blood Bank |
| Zayed Educational Complex, Al BidyaRamadan league 2025 |
| Fujairah City CentreRamadan forum 2026 |
| Shubra–Banha road, EgyptIftar for travellers with Misr El Kheir, 2025 |
Timeline
2018 –| 2018 | First edition by the Sawaed Zayed team, sponsored by Sheikh Ahmed bin Hamad bin Saif Al Sharqi; suhoor with the sponsors at the Concorde Hotel; blood donation at Lulu with the Ministry of Health. |
| 2019 | Second edition "Our Ramadan is tolerance", launched in the presence of Sheikh Abdullah bin Suhail Al Sharqi; iftar for drivers, "In their smile a reward", a health hour, charity in memory of the departed; Sheikh Hamdan bin Khalifa and Sheikh Ahmed bin Ali Al Sharqi join the distribution. |
| 2020 | Pandemic Ramadan: meals for workers in Al Hayl industrial area with gloves, distancing and sanitising; the association's first Ramadan council online, "Your blood is life for another" with Fujairah Blood Bank. |
| 2021 | Second Ramadan council: "We carry your burden" suhoor for the first line of defence and for workers in the last ten nights. |
| 2022 | The press records 39,000 people reached over three Ramadans and "Coffee on us" after Friday prayers. |
| 2023 | Ramadan forum at the Court junction and the Ramadan market on Fujairah Corniche; ghabqa at Bait Al Fan; suhoor "on us"; youth football league at Fujairah Club. |
| 2024 | Seventh Ramadan forum: daily packing at the headquarters (34 volunteers, 358 hours) and distribution at the junction and in Kalba (30 volunteers, 263 hours); ghabqa at Bait Al Fan and Mohammed bin Zayed City; "My son builds me" and social-responsibility lectures with Sheikh Ahmed bin Ali Al Sharqi in attendance. |
| 2025 | Ramadan "Freijna" league at the Zayed Educational Complex in Al Bidya (132 volunteer registrations, 571 hours); a delegation joins Misr El Kheir in Egypt for "iftar for travellers" on the Shubra–Banha road. |
| 2026 | Ramadan forum at Fujairah City Centre, 26 February to 18 March: 35 volunteers, 1,648 verified hours. |
On the record
Our record| 26 Feb 2026 | Ramadan with Sawaed ZayedFujairah City Center, Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah St | 35 volunteers · 1648 hours |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Final day of our Ramadan league eventAl Bidyah - Adgat, Fujairah | 24 volunteers · 122 hours |
| 23 Mar 2025 | Ramadan volunteering in EgyptCairo, Egypt | 2 volunteers · 72 hours |
| 10 Mar 2025 | Ramadan Freejna League activityAl Bidyah - Adgat, Fujairah | 39 volunteers · 449 hours |
| 24 Mar 2024 | Ramadan packingMilli iran building apartment 201 - Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah Al Sharqi St - Mraisheed - Fujairah | 34 volunteers · 358 hours |
| 23 Mar 2024 | Ramadan with Sawaed ZayedFujairah | 30 volunteers · 263 hours |
| 3 Apr 2022 | Ramadan Majlis 3 (2022) and a blood donation driveFujairah | 0 volunteers |
| 13 Apr 2021 | Ramadan Majlis 2021: suhoor for the front line and "Sajdat Aman"Fujairah | 0 volunteers |
| 24 Apr 2020 | "Ramadan with Sawaed Emirates" and the first Ramadan Majlis, 2020Al Hayl, Fujairah | 0 volunteers |
| 5 May 2019 | "Ramadan with Sawaed Zayed", second editionFujairah | 0 volunteers |
| 17 May 2018 | "Ramadan with Sawaed Zayed", first editionFujairah | 0 volunteers |
Figures come from the association’s admin reports and the verified record; the programme’s national figures from its own announcements.