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 Northern regions of Ghana, there are over 50,000 basic school children who are compelled by poverty to suffer the indignity of lying on their stomachs in schools to learn. This is due to the inability of their parents to afford the costs of school chairs. In many communities, the circumstances affect the health, psyche and enrolment of kids as the difficult circumstances for learning leads to drop-outs especially among girls. Touched by the plight of such kids and the indignity that they suffer, I have so far personally provided school desks for 382 school kids in three different schools. But the problem is prevalent and more needs to be done to lift as many kinds from the indignity of lying on the floor to study.