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
In underserved Nigerian communities, too many students face a silent barrier: the absence of career guidance. At Itele High School and Ijebu Ife Community School, over 60% of learners select the wrong UTME subjects, shutting themselves out of future opportunities before they even begin. Not because they lack ambition, but because no one has shown them the path. The GUIDED project was born to change this. It is a bridge between raw potential and purposeful futures. Our strategy is simple but powerful: a tailored career guidebook with 60+ professions, interactive self-discovery workshops, mentorship from professionals across fields, and peer-led learning clubs that help students explore their strengths. This campaign means giving more than 500 students in its first phase the tools to make informed choices, build confidence, and see themselves in careers once thought unreachable. It is about the girl who dreams of medicine but lacks clarity on subject choices, the boy passionate about design but pressured into a different path. With support, we can break cycles of underemployment, align education with opportunity, and empower young Nigerians to thrive. GUIDED is more than a project—it is a movement to ensure no student is left unguided, no dream left unexplored.