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
We are launching the Let's Learn to Read (LLR) campaign to address a critical challenge in Bangladesh's education sector: the lack of trained teachers, particularly in rural areas. Despite having one of the largest primary education systems globally, quality education remains elusive for many children. Teachers play a pivotal role in student achievement, with research showing their impact on learning outcomes surpasses other school-based interventions. Yet, many primary school teachers in Bangladesh lack the skills and resources necessary to foster essential reading and literacy skills in early learners. Food for the Hungry Bangladesh (FHB), with over five decades of experience in transformative community development, is committed to bridging this gap. Our proposed teacher training program, set in Amtali, Barguna, aims to equip teachers of grades 1-3 with evidence-based literacy instructional strategies. By addressing the weakest reading skills among children, we strive to build a strong foundation for lifelong learning.