Dubai Municipality has become the first government department to host the Expo 2020 Volunteer Platform. The move reflects its keenness to promote volunteering as a humanitarian and urban value, and to instill a sense of responsibility among the UAE community, while developing volunteering as a lifestyle pursuit.

Dubai Municipality Director General, Dawood Al Hajiri, launched the Expo 2020 Volunteer Platform on Sunday in the presence of the Expo 2020 team. The Municipality will host the Platform for three days to assist its employees in registering as Expo volunteers.

"We are on the verge of welcoming a historic event in the UAE. We are delighted to welcome the Expo 2020 team as the first government department to host the platform for the registration of volunteers. It reiterates our support for the initiative to spread happiness, promote positive values, implement the UAE national strategy, develop the spirit of contribution and giving, and reduce the challenges resulting from a lack of human resources, in addition to benefiting from volunteers in the dissemination of the humanitarian message adopted by Dubai Municipality," said Mohammed Mubarak Al Mutaiwei, Assistant Director General of Dubai Municipality for the Business Development Sector.

"The participation in the registration of Expo 2020 reflects the Municipality's continuous efforts to work together with other government agencies to develop government work in the UAE and to document the UAE's outstanding experience," he said.

"In this context, work in Dubai Municipality is an important contribution to the promotion of government excellence in the UAE and the dissemination of successful and accumulated experiences, in a way that combines theory and practice and works to reproduce and exchange knowledge between government institutions to serve the objectives of the country and the region, in general, through volunteering to serve this global event," said Al Mutaiwei.

Earlier this month, Expo 2020 Dubai announced the establishment of a volunteer center, to be an exclusive creative space, under which all EXPO 2020 volunteers will gather in Dubai.

Najeeb Mohammed Al Ali, Executive Director of the Expo 2020 Bureau, praised the move by Dubai Municipality and its employees. "This is the first platform of its kind for Expo, and its welcome here is another great contribution by Dubai Municipality. This is, in itself, another manifestation of the overall national desire for the success of our national project, which is of interest to all of us, namely Expo 2020 Dubai," he said.

"I believe that the mobile platform will be an additional source and a unique outlet for UAE nationals and residents to register their desire to serve the nation and to extend it to millions of people from all over the world who enjoy what the UAE has to offer," noted Al Ali.