Sheikha Al Thani | SATUC Chairperson | The World Federation of United Nations Friends (WFUNF) honorary doctorate & Goodwill Ambassador | Winner of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Creative Sports Award The Award for her humanitarian initiative to organize SATUC World Cup for children from all over the world.
Sheikha Althani was granted an honorary doctorate and was named The World Federation of United Nations Friends (WFUNF) Goodwill Ambassador for her great efforts in serving orphaned children worldwide. WFUNF agreed to carry out common projects for the orphaned children with her. SATUC, under her vision, won the coveted MBR Creative Sports Award for her humanitarian initiative to organize the SATUC World Cup for children from all over the world. Sheikha was also named vice president for National Karate Federation and and awarded an Honorary Black Belt, other than her Dan 2 black belt, by the Georgian National Karate Federation and an MMA belt while visiting Georgia. Sheikha’s love of sports is no secret, and she utilizes this passion in her charitable work.
Sheikha Al Thani attended Queen’s Gate School in London and later graduated with her BA from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Princess Sheikha bint Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al Thani was born in New York, daughter of Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani, previous minister of Economy and Trade and Chief of Police in Qatar. Growing up between Egypt, the UK, and the US, Sheikha was deeply affected by all the unnecessary suffering in the world when she was only a child herself.
At the tender age of 14, Sheikha decided to found SATUC and has since dedicated her life to improving the lives of marginalized and disadvantaged children. In her bid to raise awareness and offer her support, Sheikha has already engaged in charitable work in places as far afield as Malawi, kazakhstan, Georgia, the Philippines, and Sudan to name but a few. Despite her travels, Sheikha has always been mindful that charity begins at home and has devoted a lot of her time to projects closer to her bases in London and Cairo, including working with disabled children from Sense Scotland, supporting various children’s hospitals in Egypt and organizing a countrywide football tournament for orphans, refugees and underprivileged children in 2013 we have been using football to inspire and empower children from underprivileged backgrounds. For example, in 2014 we organized the first SATUC tournament in Egypt with 16 teams from all over the country. After this first edition, the tournament grew up in popularity and gained international recognition, support, and cooperation from football stars and historic clubs like Al-Ahly, which is still ongoing.
Then in 2015, she went global as we organized our first edition of the SATUC World Cup in Cairo, Egypt where we invited teams from 8 countries as follows: Egypt, Syria, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, England, Cote D’Ivoire, and the Philippines.
In 2018 she held the second edition of our World Cup in a different continent, in Europe, more specifically in Sofia, Bulgaria. Where we had 12 teams from all over the world as follows: Bulgaria, Cameroon, Cambodia, Indonesia, Liberia, Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, and Nigeria.
She has also organized football camps on 5 continents, sending a clear message to children: that through football training, effort, and dedication they can change their lives, as well as avoid falling into criminality or drug use.
SATUC cause evidently led to a number of 14-15 year old participants in the SATUC World Cup to become global stars Iliman Ndiaye, who was one of our 2TR Football players in the SATUC World Cup in Egypt in 2015, joined Sheffield United for later promoted into the premier league.
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