On January 25, 2015, META launched its inaugural project, ‘Home Grown’, discovering and celebrating the artistic talent that saturates the youth of the Middle East, a community consisting of over 200 different nationalities and cultures. This unique philanthropic programme offered 34 talented youth across the region a once-in-a -lifetime, expense-free opportunity, to realize their potential in the areas of art, theatre and music. The intensive two week theatre training programme, which took place for the first time in the Emirate of Sharjah, UAE, culminated in the production of ‘Dhow Under the Sun’, a play in Arabic and English, which publicly premiered to local guests in support of the inspirational initiative.