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
I am a Professor of Education in Dubai and I am keen to see all children accessing their basic right of quality education. I visited Mazianike Primary School in Zimbabwe and saw that it has a total enrollment of 703 children who are using a block of blair toilets with 12 squatting holes. That means, an average of 58 children are sharing one toilet hole. There is an acute shortage of key teaching and learning resources such as textbooks. In some subjects, there are no textbooks for children, but a teacher's copy only. There is a shortage of classrooms which is causing some children to learn from outside. The school does not have computers for children to use for educational purposes. As a specialist in education, I created this fundraising campaign to raise money to help construct more toilets, classrooms and a computer lab and to buy textbooks and computers. Donations in the form of old computers and any form of reading books suitable for children in primary school will be greatly appreciated. All funding that is donated will be used exclusively to help develop the school and there will be a high level of accountability and transparency. Any form of donation will be greatly appreciated as it will provide a milestone of achievement in terms of helping the country achieve the fourth sustainable development goal of providing quality and equitable education to all children.