Emirates has today revealed a dedicated A380 livery, which highlights the Emirates Airline Foundation’s work to improve the lives of children. The foundation has supported over 50 projects in 12 countries across education, food, clean water, healthcare and housing.
On Monday (September 2, 2024), Emirates unveiled and new special Airbus A380 livery highlighting the work of the Emirates Airline Foundation’s work to improve the lives of Children. The livery design is inspired by playful element’s of the foundation’s logo, incorporating children’s artwork with pastel stars in light green, warm orange, baby blue and soft pink across the fuselage, complemented by the foundations bold mission message, ‘Help to support Children in need.’ The engine cowls have also been adorned in the warm orange hue, symbolizing a better future for disadvantaged and vulnerable children.
Operating under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman & Chief Executive, Emirates Airline and Group, the Emirates Airline Foundation is a non-profit charity dedicated to providing humanitarian, philanthropic aid, and essential services for children. Over the past two decades, the foundation has supported over 50 projects in 12 countries, partnering with Numerous community-based organizations and NGOs. Funding is provided by Emirates customers, donors, and employees.
Emirates' Special Liveried Airbus A380 Showcasing the Work of the Emirates Airline Foundation Takes Flight - Courtesy Emirates
Currently, the Emirates Airline Foundation supports 14 NGOs in nine countries, including Emirates-CHES Home, a save haven for 100 abandoned HIV positive kids, and IMMPACT Girls Education Project in rural India, which provided education to 5,000 girls last year, and face-to-face training for nearly 1,500 teachers. The foundation also supports Prithipura Communities in Sri Lanka, which cares for 240 infants, children and young adults with disabilities. In the Philippines, the foundation provides funding to the Virlanie Foundation, which reaches out to abandoned, abused, exploited, neglected and orphaned children.
Additionally, the foundation has helped bring the Emirates Friendship Hospital to life in Bangladesh for over a decade, providing healthcare to over 650,000 people living in poverty.
In Kenya, the foundation supports The Little Prince Nursery and Primary School, Alfajiri Street Kids, which offers a safe space and art therapy for over 200 children, and Starehe Boys’ Centre, which delivers academic support for underprivileged boys, including high school and tertiary programs. The foundation sponsors four-year scholarships for 10 boys at the school. In South Africa and Zimbabwe, the foundation supports Fikela Children’s Centre, which is committed to serving children with HIV/AIDS, Singakwenza, which provides early childhood education, and St. Marcellin’s Children’s village, which cares for orphaned and homeless children, many with disabilities, blindness and HIV.
In Brazil, the organization supports the Saint Rita de Cassia Orphanage, which houses 96 orphaned and abandoned girls in Rio de Janeiro from ages 4-14, as well as Externato Sao Francisco de Assis, a non-profit that cares for underprivileged children and operates a school with over 70 pre-school students. Finally, in Dubai the foundation supports the SAFE Centre for Autism, a facility that offers a safe and inclusive environment for children challenged with complex learning difficulties.
During the last financial year, 20 other NGOs have also benefited from the Emirates Airline Foundation, with over 500 flights tickets provided to volunteers conducting medical, engineering and educations mission worldwide. Some notable missions include the Virginia Children’s Connection, which performed plastic surgery, cleft palate repair, and burn care for more than 275 patients in India, as well as World Wide Smiles (FWWS), which traveled to Uganda to offer dental care, and the Global Smile Foundation, which journeyed to Lebanon to perform surgery on children born with a cleft palate and lip. Additionally, Operation of Hope Worldwide sent 46 medical professionals from various countries to perform transformative surgeries in Zimbabwe, and Australian Doctors for Africa traveled to Ethiopia to conduct extensive training in orthopedics and wound management.
Source: Emirates
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