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 my home country, South Sudan, education does not resemble what the world knows as safe and well-equipped schools. Here, schools are often built from fragile grass huts that provide no protection from the scorching sun or heavy rain and can collapse at any moment. Children sit on the bare ground for hours, without chairs or desks, holding their notebooks as if they are holding their fragile dreams in their hands. Even more painful is the reality faced by girls. There are no safe or private toilets for them, forcing many to drop out of school early—not because they lack the desire to learn, but because the most basic standards of dignity are absent. In such conditions, education, which should be a source of hope, becomes another reason for exclusion and loss. Amid poverty and ongoing conflict, education in South Sudan has become severely threatened. Children who could have grown up to be doctors, teachers, and engineers instead face a future trapped by illiteracy, child labor, and hopelessness. The absence of a proper learning environment does not only steal the present; it destroys the future before it even begins. From this painful reality, my dream was born: to build a real school—a school with strong walls that protect, chairs that support tired bodies, toilets that preserve girls’ dignity, and a learning environment that reminds every child that they matter. A school that does not only teach reading and writing, but also teaches hope and restores faith that change is po