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
Our organization is a non-profit organization established more than two decades ago helping visually and physically impaired persons in Ethiopia. Among our many projects Braille education for blind and visually impaired children is one of them. We help these children learn basic education in Braille and prepare them for inclusive government or private schools where they confidently learn alongside non-disabled students. So far in the 12 years the project was successful in helping 240 blind and visually impaired children enroll in inclusive education. Some are in college and many are in high school now. This has been possible with the donation of many good and compassionate people and organization. To continue this good work we need your help to donate whatever you can for this noble cause. The project will bring 20 blind and visually impaired children out of illiteracy proving that their disability is not inability. The successful implementation of the project will have a positive impact in the community creating attitudinal change towards disability and convincing them to send their disabled children to school.