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 The Gambia, thousands of young people complete school or skills training with little or no access to meaningful opportunities. Many struggle to find jobs, market their talents, or fund their ideas; not because they lack ambition, but because the systems that should connect them to opportunity rarely reach them. At Help Desk Gambia (HDG), we believe access changes everything. That belief led us to create the Youth Opportunity Accessed Program (YOAP), a flagship initiative designed to identify youth needs in education and entrepreneurship across communities, bridge them with tailored opportunities, and connect them to education and mentorship pathways. Why We’re Setting Up This Campaign We are launching this campaign to raise the support needed to roll out YOAP’s pilot phase: from data collection (which we have already started under the program's first phase: Youth Needs Data Collection), mentorship programs, and paying of tuition fees for youths who need skills (We actually have over a 100 youths with this alignment in our data). Your support will help us reach more underserved youth, document their real challenges, and respond with actionable interventions that change lives. What It Means to Us To us, this campaign represents hope: the hope that no young Gambian will be left behind simply because opportunity didn’t reach them. It’s about giving youth the tools, voice, and access they deserve to build their own future.