About the Cause
Poor health and nutrition negatively affect children’s school attendance and ability to learn. We implement school feeding programs that look for alternative ways to ensure sustainable supply of nutritious foods to school children and young people in urban and marginalized areas.
In addition, contaminated water and poor sanitation are big factors that result in the death of children worldwide. In our programs, we always include what is called WASH which means Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. This is done through the design and construction of child-friendly and gender sensitive facilities for sanitation, such as latrines and hand-washing stations. We also provide clean water supply by building water wells and raise awareness about the importance of sanitation and hygiene.
My Story
It started with an e mail about the plight of families of our colleagues in India and an idea grew from this. Taking on a challenge to show we care is the least that we can do in the face of such adversity. It is more about the message that thoughts and prayers are with India and that as GEMS Education we are connected more than most to this. The Hajar mountains, desert and Dubai city will challenge us and it is in this gesture of sporting endeavour that we ride for the men, women and children of India. They will be in our thoughts every revolution of our pedals as we cycle from Fujairah to GEMS headquarters on June 11th. We will team up with Red Crescent so that they can distribute any funds raised through their outreach work.