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
I am setting up this fundraising in partnership with schools in Sierra Leone as an alternative to replacing corporal punishment of children in all learning settings across Sierra Leone. The Stars of The Week and Month school challenges provide school learning materials and certificates to the best school pupils who come to school every day, at the right time, smartest pupils in class, pupils who are supportive to their school when it comes to cleaning, pupils who behave well amongst their friends, teachers, and others. During our human rights education school tours, we noticed that teachers flogged pupils or asked them to kneel in the sun for coming late to school, causing noise in class, not doing homework or assignment, especially at the primary and junior levels. We developed the Stars Of The Week and Month School Challenge to solve the issue of physical and emotional abuse of children. Teachers will not have to flog school children again for the above reasons, all they will do is write names of pupils with the best behaving manners at the end of the week or month, we go to the school and make a donation of learning items. These challenges unleash the best out of school pupils, it educates and inspires others and also creates a peaceful learning environment for both pupils and teachers. This project is extremely important to me because education should not hurt. The vision is to create an environment free from all forms of violence. We say 'Pens Up Canes Down'.