HRH Prince Turki bin Mohamed bin Fahad, Minister of State, Member of the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia, and the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Charity association for Orphans Care in the Eastern Region (Benaa) attended the signing of the partnership agreement between the Charity association for Orphans Care in the Eastern Region (Benaa) and AlArabia Outdoor Advertising on Wednesday, in the presence of the Director-General of the Charity association for Orphans Care in the Eastern Region (Benaa) Abdullah bin Rashid Al-Khalidi and the CEO of AlArabia Outdoor Advertising, Mohammad bin Abdulelah AlKhereiji. The memorandum of cooperation aims to spread the association’s one million campaigns value through digital smart road billboards based on both parties’ view of the importance of supporting and developing the social responsibility in serving the community and strengthening the role of the private sector towards social responsibility.

The CEO of AlArabia Outdoor Advertising expressed his sincere gratitude to HRH Prince Turki bin Mohammed bin Fahad for his keenness to realize the integration between the various parties in order to develop the charitable sector and pave the way for long-term partnerships between the leading companies and the association. He also mentioned that the philanthropy work comes on the top priorities and principles of the company.

AlArabia Outdoor Advertising confirmed its commitment to support the charitable organizations in the Kingdom in order to play their societal and humanitarian role in serving all sectors of society. It also expressed its happiness to conclude the memorandum of partnership with the Charity association for Orphans Care in the Eastern Region (Benaa) and its willingness to work with the association to meet its aspirations and community-based objectives.

AlKhereiji indicated that the offering will contribute to increasing the market depth of advertising, content, and publishing industry by enabling national companies to move forward within the framework of digital transformation, increasing the Saudization percentage of this industry, achieving strong investment response, and contributing to transforming traditional advertising media into smart interactive digital means. This contribution is a significant addition to the smart city model that the company has strived to achieve.

“Investments in advertising, content, and publishing industry has witnessed a steady progress locally and globally and has realized profitable returns as an anchor for all government directions and initiatives. The Kingdom devotes greater attention to this industry for its effective impact on the future of promising investments within simple and feasible regulatory environments,” AlKhereiji added.

AlKhereiji also clarified that the Arabian Contracting Services (“AlArabia”) aspires to transparently share its directions and success journey with investors and the community to bring about a qualitative transformation with regard to local and international investments in the advertising and media industry. The company also aspires to introduce the national capabilities in this industry; develop the best products; and enhance its opportunities to attract local and global investments in order to achieve the objectives of the Saudi Vision 2030 initiatives.

Concluding his statement, AlKhereiji thanked the CMA, Tadawul, and Ministry of Commerce for their tireless efforts to support the active national companies in offering their shares in the market in order to increase and promote investments in all significant economic sectors, of which the advertising and media sector is a fundamental part.

Memorandums of understanding were signed this Sunday noon time in Cairo between the United Media Services (UMS) Company on the one hand and AlArabia Outdoor Advertising (“AlArabia”) and the MBC Group (“MBC”) on the other hand.

The conference, which was held in one of the major hotels in Cairo, witnessed the execution of two memorandums of understanding. AlArabia and UMS signed the first MOU on the development of outdoor advertisement in Egypt, utilizing top notch technology in this industry.

The second MoU signed between MBC and UMS provides for the cooperation between the two entities in three areas the first of which is doubling the joint efforts to face hacking and the provision of the technological resources required to combat this negative phenomenon.

The cooperation in the second area aims at producing major dramas, while MBC in the third field will obtain the rights to utilize and distribute UMS productions outside Egypt. The execution of MOUs was attended by Mohamed AlKhereiji, AlArabia Outdoor Advertising CEO, Sam Burnett, MBC CEO, and Hassan Abdullah, UMS Board Chaiman as well as directors of company board.

AlKhereiji: “We strive to provide community service campaigns in a creative way to reach the largest possible segments of the population.”

AlArabia, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, launched an awareness campaign on prostate cancer, titled “Manhood is a Responsibility.” AlArabia has promoted the campaign in various streets in Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dammam, TV channels, and social media platforms.

“We launched the campaign to activate AlArabia’s social responsibility programs, and to complement the efforts of its team of creative Saudi youth who introduce the concept of launching community campaigns in an untraditional style to reach the largest possible segments of the population. Our campaign aimed at raising the awareness on prostate cancer, the most common type of tumor affecting men. Studies have shown that one in six men suffers from prostate cancer, and that people who have this type of cancer do not develop symptoms until after the age of 50, where their conditions worsen, leading to their death”. Mohamed bin Abdulelah AlKhereiji, CEO of AlArabia said.

He added that “Through this awareness campaign, we aim to encourage people to consult a doctor once any of the symptoms is observed, conduct early examination, and further the interaction and interest of the community in this disease by producing a campaign teaser advertisement that is surprising to community population segments and questioning them on what manhood means for them. AlKhereiji confirmed that manhood is a responsibility, and that health is the top priority of responsibilities. AlArabia has also published a prostate cancer slogan that is similar to the breast cancer awareness slogan” in order for prostate cancer to be remembered as like as the breast cancer.

It is worth mentioning that the campaign realized a high reach level throughout the Kingdom and social media influencers were actively engaged in the campaign to achieve Al Arabia’s goal in raising the community awareness and disseminating the early detection culture.