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
This is a birthday fundraise - I was born on 30th October. I will use this occasion to fundraise to promote access to quality education in under resourced schools. Learners in Community Day Secondary Schools (CDSSs) continue to perform poorly in national examinations. One of the reasons is that they do not finish the examinable syllabus due to among other reasons shortage of teachers, teaching and learning resources and general perception that they are schools for under achieving students. I personally do not agree that these students are poor and were meant to fail, but systematic challenges which prevent them from competing fairly with other public schools. In the recently released national examination results, some of these schools have recorded 0% pass rate. Thus using digital platforms (dedicated website, online radio, audio players, distribution of recorded lessons and lesson notes) to deliver lessons to these learners will ensure that they cover the syllabus adequately, compete fairly with learners from heavily resources schools and improve their education outcomes and improve their chances of getting admission to public universities.