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
This campaign will respond to the drought now facing the people that the Jesuits works serve in South Sudan. Five Jesuit works based in Rumbek, Cueibet and Wau are running school feeding programs that are in jeopardy of being closed as funds allocated to the school feeding have been exhausted. The need for the continuation of the school feeding program across the 6 Jesuit works, is clear. With funds exhausted on the school feeding program, it is difficult to expect students and children to attend their schooling/education on an empty stomach with no hope of any food for the day. For the majority of students and children attending our works, the school feeding program offers them their only source of nutrition during difficult times of drought. Given the situation is so dire, we are concerned about the coming months, with the dry season coming and food scarcity predicted to hit 80% by WFP South Sudan.