SDG 1 BLOGS
801, 2020
Free Medical Care for all Students, Staff and Guests of The University
Access to healthcare is a universal human right. At the university of Bahrain we take it a step further and ensure our students staff and guests are able to receive the worry free care they deserve in order to focus on Quality education. So far for the years 2016-2020 the [...]
801, 2020
Free sustainable transportation services for all
The University of Bahrain believes everyone has a right to access free and reliable transportation, this improves their attendance and academic performance, as such, it has allocated a budget specifically for transportation that amounts to over 1million usd per year. This allows sustainable, free transportation for students, visitors and stakeholders [...]
801, 2020
Educational financial support for lower income families
The University of Bahrain has one of the most generous offerings of fees subsidies in the region, reaching $600 million in the form of fees subsidized for the years 2016- 2020. This comes as a royal decree to make education affordable to all. Around 90% of fees are subsidized by [...]
SDG 1 RESEARCH
Fair trade and ethical consumerism: A complementary perspective
Fair trade is directed toward enhancing the satisfaction of stakeholders (i.e., producers, employees, consumers, environmental interest groups, and others). Ethical consumerism employs fair trade to fulfill different objectives related to consumers, environmental, and human resources issues. Fair trade can uphold ethical consumerism as well. This chapter attempts to highlight the [...]
Women parliamentarians impact on economic growth: A cross-country analysis evidence
Women constitute half of the global population, and consequently half of the potential creators, talents, and innovators. However, they are still under-represented in national parliaments and other political bodies. In this paper, the relationship between economic growth of high-income countries and the proportion of women candidates in nation parliaments is [...]
Ergonomic Practices in Africa: Date Palm Agriculture in Algeria as an Example
For more than fifty years, early ergonomists such as [1–4] called for the application of ergonomics in developing countries to expand its application rather than its confinement to developed countries. Indeed, ergonomists from developing countries applied ergonomics to many traditional workplaces, machines, and jobs in the field of what was [...]
SDG 1 EVENTS
University of Bahrain provides assistance in the local community assisting the start-up of sustainable businesses
The university organizes the Fourth annual forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship which was held on 21 October 2019 at Sh. Abdulaziz Hall, University of Bahrain. The forum started in 2016 with the aim to encourage potential entrepreneurs to start ventures in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This free event provides entrepreneurs [...]
Donate used clothes and housewares to charity boxes- Distribute food to some workers
A group of UOB Students donate used clothes and housewares to charity boxes. By doing so they helped people meet basic human needs.And that is what students wrote about their project: Having the power to improve the lives of others is a privilege, and one that comes with its own [...]
Recycling Plastics for a wheelchair
Encourage students to contribute in recycling at the same time donate to a charity and contribute to reduce the poverty by providing wheelchair for a student with special need UOB students (Islm 101) collected bottle caps till the end of the course and donated them to get a wheelchair and [...]