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
There is persistent unemployment in Uganda (unemployment rate of about 2.28 and about 83% of 15-24 years are unemployed), 3.2% of youth work for waged employment, 90.9% work for informal employment, and 5.8% of the Ugandan youth are self-employed. Although 60,000-70,000 students in Uganda leave secondary education each year, 35 % of them are able to find places in limited number of higher institutions and every student who accesses a university education in Uganda on average is the first in their family to do so leaving many with the option of Vocational & Technical education. St Johns College of Science & Technology is a unique college of higher learning established to advance transformation It is against this background that St Johns College of Science & Technology (a skills institute) was established to undertake academic & professional training purposed to bridge this skills gap. We design, approach & offer functional programs (training courses) tailored towards labor market orientation and based on UVQF standards and assessment against these standards. The College serves youth, women, out of school children, South Sudanese refugees who are being hosted in West Nile region of Uganda since 2016 for whom food rations have been cut and they are to fend for themselves and skilling has proven to be a livelihoods option of choice to bridge this gap.