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 pupils are lucky enough to come from privileged backgrounds and have all the advantages and opportunities of a broad and exciting education in an international setting, where they can think, create, question, in an atmosphere which recognises equality, diversity and innovation. The Wishing tree is designed to help pupils be reflective about aspects of the world that are not so fortunate and also to think about how they can support others. Pupils need to learn that they can make a difference, that they can take action. Helping to support a cause which will enable others to access education when they wouldn't otherwise, is a very important cause and close to the heart of Brighton College Dubai who has a core value of kindness and wants to promote that within all our pupils.