Abu Dhabi: Zayed Higher Organisation for People of Determination (ZHO) and Emirates Transport have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance their partnership in providing the best services to ZHO’s members of determination.
According to the MoU, the two sides will cooperate to carry out an initiative to have people of determination sew uniforms for Emirates Transport’s bus drivers and supervisors at the sewing workshops of ZHO’s Agricultural and Vocational Rehabilitation Department.
The memo was signed by ZHO’s Secretary-General, Mr. Abdullah Abdul Ali Al Humaidan, and Emirates Transport’s Executive Vice President and CEO of the School Transport Sector, Ms. Feryal Tawakkol. The signing ceremony took place at ZHO’s headquarters in the presence of a group of leaders from both sides.
Under the agreement, ZHO shall carry out annual awareness and education courses for Emirates Transport’s bus drivers and supervisors on dealing with people of determination, geared towards raising their understanding of the security and safety measures to maintain the safety of students during their daily round trip to the care and rehabilitation centres to ensure their protection from all risks. This comes within the framework of ZHO’s keenness to provide the highest safety standards for its members and to ensure their safe arrival at its headquarters.
The MoU includes ZHO’s registration in the supplier registry in Emirates Transport’s procurement system to support the implementation of the initiative to sew uniforms for bus drivers and supervisors and provide their needs with the products of ZHO’s rehabilitation workshops.
The agreement further includes training and employing its distinguished students of determination at Emirates Transport and supporting their products. Emirates Transport shall also provide a free electric car for the easy movement of ZHO’s members of determination and auditors among its facilities.
Mr. Al Humaidan welcomed this partnership and cooperation with Emirates Transport, praising its role in providing excellent and distinct services. For her part, Ms. Tawakkol stressed that signing this MoU falls within Emirates Transport’s keenness to build fruitful strategic partnerships with government actors, with the aim of empowering people of determination as an important segment of society.