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
My name is Muthoni Maina, I am the founder of CBM Mentorship program. I am a lawyer by profession but ended up in the Marketing profession by passion. My professional journey inspired this program as its something common in my country Most young people hold jobs they don't like while others are in different professions than what they studied in college. Lack of in-depth career guidance has made career choice in Kenya be based on family, grades and peer influence and young people learn later in life that their passions lie elsewhere. To curb this, I started a program that exposes students to diverse careers, helps them understand what different careers entail and get access to mentors. The same hurdle has made youth unemployment rates go high as students graduate and cannot find employment due to lack of information and exposure to industry opportunities. Through a mobile App and production of content available on social media, we are giving students access to information, opportunities and mentors to hand hold them in their fields of study. Our program also gets partnerships with organizations to address youth unemployment, skill development, job creation and access to information. By supporting us you are empowering the future generation in Kenya.