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
Yes, the villages made of mud houses and thatch roofs without electricity, tap water or internet you see in documentaries exist, and I was born in one. I have had the advantage of getting a a good education to become an architect. It is only fair that I give back to the community that helped raise me. Anytime I go back to the (Yitonia) my village and see children living their basic life I wonder how they will survive the outside world in the next 5-10 years. The schools only have access to a few good books which the children make good us of. But how will they be employed into the corporate world without any knowledge of how to use basic computer tools. I believe it is best to give them an E-education now so that they will not be at the bottom of the job market and become a burden to the society.