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 alarming findings of education in our country have propelled us into action. Every year, close to 500 000 children are deprived of their right to a preschool education, and of their right to succeed. Universal access to free preschool for all is key for the Moroccan school system to guarantee equal opportunities and a meritocracy to its citizens. Setting up preschool classrooms in the most disadvantaged areas and proposing a long-term quality pedagogical model, is a unique opportunity for the most vulnerable children to continue thriving. Only 25,5% of girls in rural areas are recorded as enrolled in preschool education where there is seldom any quality control. Streamlining the curriculum and offering teacher training leads to an improvement of the quality of the learning, as well as reduces school drop-out rates. In addition, parental education builds awareness about hygiene, health issues, but also stresses the importance of pre-school to ensure children get on the right educational path with favorable conditions to begin first grade.