Eng. Fatima Obeid Al Jaber, Chairperson of the Abu Dhabi Businesswomen Council (ADBWC) Executive Board (EB), extended the deepest thanks and utmost gratitude to HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women Union, Supreme Chairperson of the Family Development Foundation and Honorary Chairperson of the ADBWC, for the confidence entrusted to the ADBWC Executive Board chairwoman and members, for her support to and ceaseless sponsorship of women’s march in both the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the UAE, for her non-stop back-up and follow-up of the ADBWC’s initiatives, plans and projects, as well as for HH’s keenness to provide all forms of bolstering and buttressing to make such plans, initiatives and projects a success.

This came in the course of the ADBWC Executive Board’s first meeting held, chaired by Mrs. Al Jaber and attended by members of the EB. A part of the meeting was also witnessed by HE Mohamed Thani Al Rumaithi, Chairman of both the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ADCCI) and the Federation of UAE Chambers of Commerce & Industry, besides HE Nasser Al Maamari, ADCCI Board Member, along with HE Mohamed Rashid Al Hameli, ADCCI Director-General.

Commending the kind care being taken by HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, ADBWC Honorary Chairperson, of the council, Mr. Al Rumaithi underlined that the ADCCI Board “is going to help both support the ADBWC’s plans and initiatives and provide all forms of material and moral support to make the council’s future activities and plans a success, for these are entirely intended to back up UAE women in Abu Dhabi”.

For her own part, the ADBWC EB’s Chairwoman stressed that the council is going over the upcoming period to develop an integrated strategy for the forthcoming chapter, focusing on how to streamline women’s economic role through supporting female entrepreneurs and businesswomen in Abu Dhabi, in addition to disseminating a culture of free, self-employed commercial, economic and services culture amongst women nationals in the emirate.

“Such strategy and its prospective contents, including periodic plans for organizing awareness campaigns plus training and development programmes are designed to help UAE women found their commercial, economic and services projects, providing consultations and administrative support and making promotion for such projects in local and external markets,” she said, adding that “The ADBWC is working towards looking after UAE businesswomen’s interests, encouraging them to engage in private business in a manner that would boost their role in the overall economic life and contribute to increasing women nationals’ investment role in Abu Dhabi’s all-out, comprehensive economic development process”.

During the meeting, the ADBWC’s march, objectives and projects in the pipeline over the forthcoming period were reviewed. These would be included in the council’s strategy for the upcoming chapter, for the new strategy is going to concentrate upon solving all difficulties and obstacles being encountered by UAE women’s projects in Abu Dhabi, expanding the establishment of such projects and providing all technical and administrative tools which could contribute to the success of Abu Dhabi-based businesswomen’s projects’ incorporation and viability.

Furthermore, the meeting was attended by Ms Azza Darwish Al Qubaisi, ADBWC EB Deputy Chairperson, along with Mrs. Noura Mohammed Hilal Al Ka’abi, Ms Mariam Ateeq Al Muhairi, Mrs. Rafeea Bint Hilal Duri Al Qubaisi, Mrs. Mouza Saeed Ahmed Al Uttaiba, Mrs. Asmaa Abdullah Al Fahim, Mrs. Al Yaziyah Ali Saleh Al Tuwaiti, Mrs. Reed Hamad Al Shariani Al Dhaheri, Mrs. Shamsa Saeed Khalaf Al Mazrouei, Mrs. Nashwa Abdullah Khalifa Al Qubaisi, Mrs. Wudaima Faraj Ali Bin Humouda and Mrs. Meera Musallam Ahmed Al Mazrouei.