Humanitarian Aid and Relief is of exceptional importance to Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, reflecting its core mission as an overarching entity of humanitarian entities and initiatives that seek to improve lives and deploy necessary resources and capacities to alleviate all kinds of suffering across the world. The fundamental pillar aims to provide urgent aid and effective emergency relief to communities affected by natural disasters, wars and other crises, in addition to implementing sustainable long-term development projects and programmes that improve lives of communities facing challenges such as poverty and conflict.