About the Cause
Dubai Cares’ programs are designed to reduce, if not remove, the greatest obstacles that prevent children and young people in developing countries from attaining quality education. With each intervention, Dubai Cares evaluates the need for assistance across two key areas:
Access to Education which allows Dubai Cares to improve children’s health and learning environment, increase education enrollment and attainment, increase access to education, reduce absenteeism, increase gender parity and increase promotion rates.
Quality of Education which enables early learning, enhances educational attainment and school progression, improves literacy and numeracy skills among children, enables teachers to access teacher training resulting in better learning outcomes, reduce dropout rates and increase primary school attainment.
Dubai Cares is a long-term advocate of safeguarding children and young people’s right to education and is currently playing a global advocacy role in spreading the knowledge about the importance of providing education to the unprivileged children.
We also champion education through research - There is an overwhelming lack of evidence as to what works to promote children’s learning in crisis-affected contexts. Research plays a pivotal role in tackling this issue.
My Story
We understand how important it is for every child to be able to learn, develop themselves and be supported in their potential to grow. We all have been privileged with excellent education opportunities ourselves, and therefore we want to give back to support children in challenging environments to have access to good education as well. We are passionate racers, and we decided that we want to inspire other people to support the education initiative by fund-raising throughout our participation in the Dubai 24h karting race on December 9/10 at Dubai Autodrome. We are counting on the community to support, and we want to raise money for every lap we will race in the 24 hours. We believe that we will do more than 1000 laps, so if for every lap we race we can collect 5 AED, we can achieve our target of 5,000 to support Dubai Cares and their education programs. We are a team of 5 races, including 4 kids of 16, 16 and 17 years old.