Dubai(AE-DU): The UAE has honoured an Indian businessman for contributing debt-ridden migrant prisoners by assisting them to repay their own debts & offering them free air return to their own respective nations, as per a media record.
Shaikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy PM & Minister of Interior, on Wed. introduced Firoz Goulam Merchant with an excellence certificate & a citation, the Gulf Information recorded on Thu..
Merchant, who’s the proprietor of Pure Gold Jewelers, was carrying out the work (5) from the start of his own philanthropic movement- Forgotten Community.
He was functioning with multiple correctional institutions within the nation to identify debt-ridden prisoners & assisted them in repaying debts, thus securing their own declare & offering free air passage to their own respective nations, the record stated.
“It has been a quite proud moment for me to be acknowledged by this govt of the land. I’d like to express my appreciation to the UAE govt for this honourable recognition for my humble measures to help the society,” Merchant has been quoted as informing within the record.