– In partnership, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Alwaleed Philanthropies and World Scouting have joined forces to empower the next generation of young women leaders

– From October 15 to 17, 2021, JOTA-JOTI connected millions of young people around the world around online activities promoting friendship and global citizenship, mobilizing support to achieve the Kingdom’s ambitions of bringing together a million people volunteers per year

– This year’s JOTA-JOTI event fully supported the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the involvement of PNU Women Scouts having created a particular alignment with SDG 5: gender equality

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, October 19, 2021 / PRNewswire / – The international philanthropic organization Alwaleed Philanthropies, chaired by HRH the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Al Saud has partnered with Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, the world’s largest women’s university and World Scouting to participate in that of Saudi Arabia first JOTI-JOTI female scout event to inspire young Saudi girls to become active and engaged citizens, mobilizing support to achieve the Kingdom’s ambitions of bringing together one million people volunteers per year. World event, JOTA-JOTI brought together scouts from 172 countries for three days on Friday 15^e October – Sunday 17^e October 2021, with a live show airing on the third day with 100 scouts and 20 mentors from Princess Nourah University. This year’s JOTA-JOTI event fully supported the United Nations SDGs, with the involvement of PNU Women Scouts having created a particular alignment with SDG 5: Gender Equality.

JOTA-JOTI is the world’s largest digital scout event taking place on the Internet and on the air. Held annually in October, the event connects millions of young people around the world around online activities that promote friendship and global citizenship. The local event was broadcast live on Sunday 17th^e October at Princess Nourah University, with a dynamic program including a live performance as well as non-formal education activities and global webinars. World Scouting Partners were actively involved in the event, offering their expertise and fun activities to engage the participants.

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The aim of JOTA-JOTI is to enable and encourage Scouts around the world to communicate with each other through amateur radio and the Internet, providing them with a fun and educational Scouting experience and promoting their sense of belonging. to a world scout movement. The program aims to help Scouts and non-Scouts of all ages to discover communication technologies, the values ​​of global citizenship and how young people can together solve the most pressing challenges facing our planet by putting the focus on the development of 21^st skills of the century through Scouting.

“Young people are the largest generation of young people in history and investing in them is essential to make them great agents of change. They have creative responses to the challenges that will define the future of our economy, our environment and our society. Alwaleed Philanthropies is honored to have joined forces with Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University and World Scouting to mobilize young people to advance the Sustainable Development Goals, effectively improving the lives of people in Saudi Arabia and beyond, “said Her Royal Highness Princess Lamia bint Majed Saud Al Saud, Secretary General of Alwaleed Philanthropies.

The live broadcast of JOTA-JOTI marked the first event that came to fruition following the partnership agreement between Alwaleed Philanthropies and World Scouting – a first in the Kingdom to create structured scout groups at Saudi universities to support the participation of women and young people in Scouting locally and internationally and to encourage greater participation in community volunteering in the higher education sector. The partnership agreement aimed to align volunteer programs at Saudi universities with the framework of World Scouting as well as prepare students to participate in non-profit development projects.

About Alwaleed Philanthropies

For four decades, Alwaleed Philanthropies has supported and spent over $ 4 billion on social welfare and has launched more than 1,000 projects in more than 189 countries, managed by 10 Saudi members, reaching more than a billion beneficiaries worldwide, regardless of gender, race or religion. Alwaleed Philanthropies works with a range of philanthropic, government and educational organizations to fight poverty, empower women and youth, develop communities, provide disaster relief and create cultural understanding through education .

The World Organization of the Scout Movement (World Scouting)

Scouting is the world’s premier youth education movement, engaging millions of young people to become active citizens and create positive change in their communities. The Scout Movement is made up of over 57 million Scouts linked together by a worldwide membership of 172 national Scout organizations.

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