HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Greater Board for the Defense of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, has actually opened DEWA's Innovation Centre at the facilities of the Dubai Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled (DRCD) in Al Qusais, Dubai. HE Najla bint Mohammad Al Awar, Cabinet Member and Minister of Community Growth, HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & Chief Executive Officer of DEWA, Ayesha Al Darbi, Manager of DRCD, and various other senior authorities participated in the opening event.

DEWA senior officials, consisting of Rashid Bin Humaidan, Executive Vice President of Distribution Power, Marwan Bin Haider, Executive Vice President of Innovation and the Future, Khawla Al Mehairi, Vice President of Advertising and marketing and Corporate Communications, and a variety of DEWA's employees also went to the ceremony.

The centre reflects DEWA's dedication to social duty and the Year of Giving initiative. It symbolizes DEWA's efforts to rehabilitate the impaired with effective campaigns and programs. DEWA means to give far better services to the handicapped, based upon clearly-defined strategies that are aligned to best worldwide techniques and requirements. This assists DEWA an accomplish its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy to advertise the involvement and incorporation of individuals with specials needs in the community, while eliminating all challenges that could stand in their way to positively engage in their working environment as creative and innovative people.

"DEWA introduced the innovation centre in accordance with the sensible vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to cultivate social solutions, and in adherence with the 'My community ... a city for everyone' campaign released by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Royal prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, to transform Dubai right into a disability-friendly city by 2020. In our quest to attain our vision to end up being a lasting innovative world-class utility, we are dedicated to developing CSR principles by introducing social and developmental efforts and tasks. This is an integral part of our function as a socially-responsible federal government organisation. We continuously aim to meet the needs of all culture, notably the impaired, to add to Dubai's lasting development to make sure a successful and flourishing future for generations to come. The launch of the innovation centre likewise sustains the National Innovation Approach making the UAE one of the most innovative nations worldwide, and the Dubai Innovation Technique making Dubai the most innovative city worldwide. DEWA's strategic plans include a number of strategic goals focusing on shaping the future, improving strategic innovation, ensuring stakeholders' happiness and instilling an imaginative and innovative society. We established both a framework and an integrated strategy for innovation, to encourage and carry out imaginative ideas and ideas, while adopting creative thinking and innovation as significant pillars and corporate worths," stated Al Tayer.

"The project consists of well-researched efforts and programmes to improve the knowledge of disabled stables, and sustain their creativity, innovation and continuous discovering. This attains our vision and tactical strategies to cope with the Fourth Industrial Change, and assists trainees with disabilities to add to the success of their areas. DEWA really hopes that the centre will have a leading position regionally and around the world, comprises an iconic model for innovation, and adds to creating the skills of the handicapped and getting them effectively involved in social tasks," included Al Tayer.

The Ministry of Community Development mentioned that the centre is aligned with the National Innovation Technique, launched by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to make the UAE one of the most innovative countries worldwide, with a concentrate on structure nationwide abilities and abilities in innovation. The development of the centre sustains nationwide tactical plans to attain the UAE Vision 2021, and equip all society to participate in lasting growth strategies and tasks. The centre will offer an atmosphere for individuals with disabilities where they can find their innovative abilities. It will certainly be an ideal platform that provides people with disabilities the opportunity to gain from modern innovations that make their lives simpler and open brand-new horizons for their complete incorporation and involvement in the community. DEWA's Innovation Centre sets an instance for an effective social partnership to support all culture. This is attained by giving to pupils with impairments the scientific and functional knowledge and experiences they have to develop their capacities and abilities, to make sure that all society could prosper.

The Ministry said thanks to DEWA for its efforts and full assistance for those initiatives connected to integrate individuals with impairments right into society and equip them to develop.

DEWA's Innovation Centre includes 8 corners, namely Fantasy Corner. This has a smart interactive display to sustain the creativity and imagination of trainees with impairments. The Junior Innovator Corner includes totally free learning tools and to develop the mobility of disabled trainees by making simplified models for robotics, geometric forms and architectural designs. The Solar Energy Edge adds to obtaining ecological ideas connected to disabled trainees' lives via a collection of ecological tools developed to generate power, such as homes, followers, and electric automobiles. The Robotic Corner makes up the elementary level for programs students. It includes numerous type of buildable removaling robots, such as cranes, trucks and automated vehicles. At this edge, trainees could develop robots inning accordance with guidebooks or their calculations.

The centre additionally has the NOW Robot Corner, which has an advanced level of programs. It is a 50cm-tall robotic that could be programmed utilizing simple language. It could relocate, stroll and speak inning accordance with its programming. The 3D Corner is the heart of the centre, and includes two cutting edge 3D printing press. Students with impairments can publish whatever they want, such as mugs, fruits and toys, and generate plastic components utilized by the trainees with handicaps for their therapy, such as arm splints and leg dental braces, making use of model-scanning technology. The Reading Corner has been established in adherence with the '2016 ... the Year of Reading' effort, launched by HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE. With this corner, DEWA reveals that the only means to make the future generation ready for the future is supporting science, education and reading. The eighth edge is DEWA's Smart Solutions, where DEWA shows its technique to sustain the Smart Dubai initiative, introduced by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to earn Dubai the most intelligent and happiest city worldwide. This corner enables the trainees making use the Ash'ir campaign by DEWA for people with hearing impairment.

The centre will certainly offer over 150 trainees with handicaps with the required training courses on modern innovations. It will certainly guarantee a positive innovative educational setting, empowering them to obtain participated in all kinds of social activities to become creative and innovative people. DEWA intends to provide trainees with a self-learning experience in which they could deal with innovative gadgets like robots, which enhance their innovative, innovative and lasting capabilities, and aids them satisfy the work market's requirements.

The centre aims to establish innovative, academic and behavioral knowledge of students with impairments. This assists them participate in the nationwide efforts, such as the Year of Granting, governmental creativity and innovation, reading, and sustainability initiatives. The project targets the pupils of DRCD and other centres of the impaired all over the UAE and the whole world.

DEWA is committed to its CSR. DEWA supports all type of social initiatives that highlight its role in cultivating sustainability and developing future generations that could develop their neighborhoods, offer their nation, and guarantee its ongoing prosperity.