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
I'm the author of "The Big Buna Bash," a multicultural children's book published by Brandylane Publishers in 2020. I combined my love of children and Ethiopian culture to write about an Ethiopian girl and the traditional buna coffee ceremony "that brings people together". I bought the rights to translate and publish my book also in Amharic, and created a distribution project in Ethiopia for children of low income families and organizations that work with these children. Our goal is to print and distribute 1000 copies of "The Big Buna Bash" in Amharic to literate Amharic mother-tongue children in Addis Ababa. Ethiopian children want to read but don't have easy access to books, especially books with beautiful, colorful illustrations. In Ethiopia libraries are few and limited to the compounds of schools. These libraries are filled with textbooks, and storybooks are rare. The general director of the Ethiopian National Library, Yikunnoamlak Mezgebu, recently wrote to me, "We desperately need children's books with Ethiopian context and good illustrations." The book is ready, but we need funds to print, ship, and distribute. I have used my own resources up until now, but need funding to continue this project. Your contribution will make a difference! Three AED will print one book for a child in Ethiopia that has never owned a storybook! I have fiscal sponsorship with Humanitarian Social Innovations, which gives me 501(c)(3) non-profit charity status.