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 would like to bring to your attention that, in the past several years, great strides have been made in the fight against illiteracy in Uganda, The introduction of free education by the government and several concerted efforts to implement an adult literacy programs are clear signs that the fight has well focused objectives and moving in the right direction. The vision to make primary literacy universal and an inalienable fundamental human right is one of the greatest milestones in the fight against innumerable injustices which could adequately be prevented through sound education. The literacy rate for adults is approaching 70%, with youth literacy exceeding 80% (UNESCO 2014). In addition, the gap between male and female literacy is beginning to close. This phenomenon is occurring in many countries throughout Africa. With this effort and the effort put forward by Dubai Cares to increase the literate population comes a major problem: supplying newly literate people with reading material so that they can retain their skills. The focus of this Fundraising is one such alternative: the Community Library, which is becoming increasingly famous and successful providing books, information, and access to global connectivity through the internet and general educational opportunities to rural areas in Africa Our target is $20,000 which will go towards Transforming Education across the Uganda and East African Region.