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
UNICEF reported in August 2023 that war has hampered education for 5.3 million children in Ukraine. This includes 3.6 million children directly affected by school closures. According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Education, since war began, over 2,600 schools have been damaged and over 400 destroyed across the country. The right to education is a fundamental human right, and it is vital to make sure children can continue their education and process the traumatic events they have been through to avoid a lost generation. On 16 September 2023, an attack drone hit the territory of the Dzherelo boarding school. Following the explosion, a large-scale fire destroyed the roof of the building and the corridors on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd floors. Doors and windows burnt as well as furniture and equipments in the corridors, classrooms, sleeping and living rooms. Zaporizhzhia’s Regional Council needs consolidated efforts and urgent intervention from authorities and patrons for the restoration of this very important educational institution. We want to raise the funds (300,000 AED) necessary to finance the Project Works (including project documentation, reconstruction cost estimates, state expertise of the project). This is the first step before tackling the Reconstruction Works, which will be subject to a second (larger) round of fundraising. Beneficiaries: 100 teachers (including 51 with a special education in defectology) + 316 children + their families.