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
Our organization works with rural women and youth to improve cooking and lighting needs. We work in Kenya, Uganda and SUdan. During our work we have realized there is a correlation between school performance by children, and access to electricity. We have found that areas that have no electricity have very poor performance in national exams. In our study we have found that with an intervention of solar lamps, the performance went so high that some of the best performers in national exams were from clusters that we supplied solar lamps and clean cook stoves. Our programme for solar lamps aims to supply up to 500,000 school going children with solar lamps so that they can effectively study and improve performance. Each soalr lap costs only USD 10, and a partnership with you will enable us supply many homes with this important life saving gadget. In addition, the solar lamps could also be used to light some of the houses in the focus areas. We need to pilot with 128,000 school children in the project area of Tharaka and Meru in Kenya. Help us reach our target of more and more homes served with clean energy from Solar.