Heritage Foundation, winner of the prestigious award for 2013 Emirates Environmental Initiative ‘A Greener Tomorrow’.
"In 2013 Emirates’ launched a new Environmental initiative ‘A Greener Tomorrow’. The aim was to support not-for profit environmental or conservation organisations by providing a funding award of up to USD 150,000.
Over 400 nominations were submitted, from countries across the Emirates network and beyond. The applications spanned environmental initiatives such as animal, land and tree conservation, bio-gas, environmental research, awareness raising, and green transportation.
Heritage Foundation is engaged in a wide range of activities, ranging from the construction of Eco-Villages, sustainable farming practices, building of smokeless cook stoves and educating women and children in these sustainable practices. The funding award will be used to support projects across all three of these areas in the Eco-Village, Moak Sharif." - Emirates
The video can be viewed at the following links:
http://www.emirates.com/english/environment/greener-tomorrow/greener-tomorrow.aspx