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
The news report on my screen is a haunting image - a child with terror in their eyes clutching a doll in the ruins of Gaza. Another child, another life shattered. Upon seeing this, I realised this wasn't a news story, it was a human story, a story mirroring my own childhood fear during an earthquake when i was 9 years old. Though my experience was temporary, the fear resonated and It’s but minuscule to what the children in Gaza are facing. We are all human, wired for empathy. Distance can't sever that connection. Over 2 million people in Gaza, half children, face a brutal reality - lack of clean water, displacement, and constant fear. The UN reports 1.7 million are internally displaced, families ripped apart. This isn't just a statistic, it's a mother separated from her child, a student missing their school. Silence isn't an option. That's why I'm launching "Gaza: Hope and Action." It's a fight for the human cost, a fight to amplify the voices of those unheard. The people living in Gaza are not unlike ourselves and that’s why this isn't charity, it's our shared responsibility. It’s my hope that together, we can build a bridge of optimism, a future where Gaza's children hold not dolls in rubble, but dreams in their hearts.