2nd Young Businessmen Forum at Ras Al Khaimah receives an exclusive sponsorship from 'Mawarid Finance'

The forum will include three main activities: training sessions, workshops in managing projects, and marketing for entrepreneurs which will use local youth role models, who have achieved success in their businesses, to demonstrate management and marketing skills.

The highlight will be a commercial exhibition, featuring 20 small enterprises owners, which will provide a platform for marketing projects and will provide an interactive stage for businesses on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 March at Al Manar Center.

It will provide an opportunity for participants to sign contracts and finalize deals.

The idea of the interactive stage is provide a meeting place between a number of experienced businessmen, owners of special projects, managers of foundations and authorities in the public and private sectors, and young businessmen and small enterprise owners.

It will provide a platform for these established companies to support the young investors and enhance their businesses' processes.

Participants in the exhibition were carefully chosen to ensure diversity of participation between companies in a range of industries, including advertising, real estate and programming.

These companies will display their products and their services to the governmental and commercial companies and organizations.

As part of its mandate to be at the forefront of national organizations participating in improving local society, following the lead of their highnesses, the leaders of the Emirates and heads of local authorities, "Mawarid Finance", the pioneer company in Islamic Finance, announced its diamond sponsorship of this forum.

Rehab Lootah, head of business development and corporate communications at Mawarid Finance, said:

"Mawarid's sponsorship of this forum ensures the company's commitment to support the initiatives and activities that serve small and medium projects in the UAE, and to also play the role that all national organizations should play in supporting and improving local society. Our participation in this event reveals the company's deep belief in the importance of achieving targeted improvements in all development sectors".

Abdul Saheb Shaaban Sajwani, General Secretary of the Business Entrepreneurs' Forum said that the interactive stage, which will be part of the forum, received great support from the official sectors, which promised to initiate contracts with small enterprises owners during the exhibition.

He praised Mawarid's involvement: "On behalf of the committee of the Business Entrepreneurs' Forum, I want to express our gratefulness and thanks to Mawarid Finance for its generous sponsorship of this forum and for participating as partners in the forum. This sponsorship sends a message to small projects owners to achieve their ambitious dreams through the gate of Mawarid Finance".

Lootah added: "With the quick, advanced steps of economic development in all its fields, the sector of small and medium enterprises is witnessing great improvements and major advances in the UAE because this kind of project is one of the most effective factors on the local economy".

"Mawarid Finance has lots of products and Islamic financial solutions suitable for small and medium projects. Many experts in different fields at Mawarid will meet the participants at the forum and interact with them and advise them on the growth of their business, in addition to defining the company's financial solutions and available facilities for this sector, and especially for promising Emarati youth," Lootah said.

Lootah concluded: "This forum will be a perfect opportunity for us to increase our interaction with the business society, especially owners of developing projects in the UAE, assisting them in marketing their businesses and providing the needed support for them".

Mawarid Finance's initiatives to serve society are considered a continuous process that the company began by launching theTamaiaz Award to boost the competitiveness and creativity of new UAE graduates and senior university students.

This month, Mawarid played a key role in the National Career Fair Exhibition in Banking & Finance, which was held in Sharjah to support Emiratization in the banking and finance sectors in the UAE and attracting local young graduates for this sector, enabling them to enter the job-market by providing promising employment opportunities, training programs, and continuous preparation.