About the Cause
Gender equality is a cross-cutting theme in all Dubai Cares’ education programs with an approach that aims to secure equal access for boys and girls to safe learning environments with adequate facilities, materials and academic support from gender sensitized teachers and communities.
My Story
I am designer of the model of wheel for education for provision of transportation to the girls who unable to continue their secondary education. Pakistan is one of the countries having lowest literacy rates in the world and is the second largest out of school population (22.8 million children) after Nigeria. Literacy rate of Pakistan is 62.3% with male literacy rate 72% and female literacy rate 51.8%. Female literacy rate is lower in compared to male literacy rate as in many parts of rural areas of the country girl's education are not a priority due to various cultural beliefs, lack of awareness on importance of girl's education, poor school environment, poor quality of education infrastructures, unaffordability or poor economic conditions and the distance or inaccessibility of the schools. My work on girls' secondary education directly towards the increase the literacy level and educational status of girls in remote rural areas by provision of conducive learning environment with teachers trained on modern teaching methods. I am very much committed to work in this area with more concrete actions. From 2018 with the transportation support to 50 girl students from poor socioeconomic background who otherwise were vulnerable to child marriage, now have crossed their matriculation. The girls provided with transportation facilities further offered their coaching classes to 150 women and girls who never went to school now have basic literacy