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
Lesebo Motheo NPO was incorporated in South Africa on 28 February 2024 under entity registration number 304-639 as a Non-Profit Organisation, Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) set out in section 30(3) of the Income Tax Act No 58 of 1962 (the Act) PBO 930084326. LM was established to address the needs of South Africans from disadvantaged backgrounds. My team and I decided to start this initiative because we realised how people from disadvantaged backgrounds are not exposed to a lot of things such as digital literacy, basic labour law, financial literacy and soft skills. The worst part is most if not all of them do not know what a CV looks like so we as the ladies decided we need to do something about it. We have collected a lot of clothes and shoes from family, friends, colleagues as well as the public which we will be handing out to our job seekers to look presentable and feel good. This initiative entails more aspects than just looks; we will offer career advice and help register our beneficiaries on job portals and offer counselling because job hunting can be stressful especially in our economy.