JAKARTA - Having a beautiful vehicle number plate or a unique cell phone number at a price of millions to hundreds of millions may be common. How about being able to get a vehicle number plate or a beautiful cellphone at an exorbitant price, but while doing charity in the month of Ramadan? You can.
Recently, the authorities of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) held a public auction of vehicle number plates and beautiful cellphones, to support charity programs in the month of Ramadan and were able to raise funds of more than 53 million UAE dirhams or around Rp. 207,189,292,408.
All proceeds from the auction of vehicle license plates and mobile phone numbers will be used for the 'One Billion Food' campaign, which was launched to step up efforts to fight global hunger, amid the fasting month of Ramadan.
The number plates of the vehicles auctioned on this occasion include AA8, F55, V66 and Y66, all of which cost more than 46 million UAE dirhams or around Rp. 179,824,672,276.
Quoted from The National News April 18, this charity auction is known to be co-organized by Emirates Auctions, Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and Abu Dhabi Police.
The AA8 number plate topped the sales list for 35 million UAE dirhams or around Rp. 136,823,120,210. Then behind him are the F55 and V66 license plates, both costing 4 million UAE dirhams or Rp. 15,636,928,024 each. As well as the Y66 number plate for 3.8 million UAE dirhams or Rp. 14,855,081,622.
As for mobile numbers, a total of ten mobile numbers from du and Etisalat are also offered. The Etisalat number sold for more than 5.4 million UAE dirhams or around Rp. Meanwhile, five special mobile numbers from Du were sold for 725,000 UAE dirhams or around Rp. 2,834,193,204
It is known, in addition to the online auction for 555 license plates by the Abu Dhabi Police on 17 and 18 April. Another auction, which will be held on April 20, will auction numbers 2, 11 and 20 of code 2 and plate number 99 of code 1 at the Emirates Palace Abu Dhabi hotel.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)
