To date, Dubai Cares has supported education programs in Afghanistan, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cambodia, Chad, Comoros Islands, Colombia, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Focus areas
Dubai Cares’ programs are designed to reduce, if not remove, the greatest obstacles that prevent children and youth 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 the organization 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; and quality of Education, which enables early learning, enhances educational attainment and school progression, improves literacy & numeracy skills among children, enables teachers to access teacher training resulting in better learning outcomes, reduce dropout rates and increase primary school attainment.
Achievements
Dubai Cares has successfully launched education programs reaching over 20 million beneficiaries in 59 developing countries.
Building and renovating 2,046 classrooms and schools.
Providing more than 1,110 water wells and potable water sources and constructing more than 6,272 latrines in schools.
Providing nutritious food to 509,294 children in schools.
Training over 123,725 teachers.
Keeping more than 55 million children free from intestinal worms through de-worming activities.
Distributing over 6.8 million books written in local languages.
Establishing over 8,437 Parent-Teacher Associations.
Community engagement
Within the United Arab Emirates, Dubai Cares is engaged in fundraising, advocacy as well as community engagement activities that support its overall mission, which is to break the cycle of poverty by providing children in developing countries with quality education. Its fundraising efforts, such as the Adopt a School initiative, are ongoing throughout the year and target both corporations as well as individuals. In terms of advocacy efforts, Dubai Cares advocates for its cause within the community, with particular focus on the young ones as its believe it is important to start early with educating people about the importance of education and being charitable. Advocacy efforts include the Dubai Cares Distinguished Philanthropic Award in Schools as well as the Walk for Education.
