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
Mainly, open minds started by providing learning facilities (a book library and a computer lab) for youth and children in the community. We identified a need for training in various areas, including reading and writing, computer usage, and internet access. This was made possible by a group of volunteers who assisted in the training direction and the executive committee members. These services helped a number of underprivileged children and youth in the community. Due to COVID-19, the facility was scheduled to close in 2020. Most of the support came from the executive committee members; that is to say, rent payment for workers, and many other things. Most of the committee members lost their jobs in that period, which led to the complete closure of the facility. And so I am here humbly requesting your support in order to reopen this facility to enable the underpriledged children and youth to get learning opportunities. Thank you.