Dubai Cares’ Dh12M aid to help 6,350 pupils
dubai — Dubai Cares has announced four new initiatives in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean Islands to support the countries severely affected by climate change.
The programmes, worth Dh12.7 million ($3.4 million), will benefit more than 6,350 school children and will be implemented in Antigua and Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean, as well as Vanuatu and Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean.
In the Caribbean, Dubai Cares has launched two new programmes, with the first being in St. Vincent and the Grenadine and in partnership with “The Zero Hunger Trust Fund”. The programme provides 2,139 school children with monitored school feeding across 12 primary schools.
Dubai Cares’ programme in Antigua and Barbuda, titled ‘Renovation of Villa Primary School in Antigua and Barbuda’, is being implemented in partnership with the Extended Arms Foundation and aims to renovate the Villa Primary School Antigua.
This programme, which benefits 355 school children, meets the government’s commitment to providing quality education for the children of Antigua while using the renovated Villa Primary School as a benchmark for future schools in the country.
Tariq Al Gurg, chief executive
Our four new programmes aim to help these islands in the caribbean and Pacific Ocean by improving the learning environment.”
Tariq Al Gurg, chief executive officer, Dubai Cares
officer of Dubai Cares said: “Our four new programmes aim to impact various communities spread across these islands in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean by improving the learning environment in these countries so that there is an improvement in the academic performance of students.”
In the Pacific Ocean, Dubai Cares is rolling out a two-year programme in Vanuatu in partnership with Unicef titled ‘Access to Early Childhood Development and Increasing Primary school readiness in Vanuatu’. It will be implemented in Penama province and will target pre-schools and parents in 84 communities.
In Kiribati, Dubai Cares’ programme aims to support the government in developing policy and quality standards to improve the existing national curriculum and services.
The programme explores the introduction and operationalisation of a one-year school readiness programme for all fiveyear-olds in Kiribati. This programme is implemented concurrently with the ‘Kiribati Development Plan’, which is a national comprehensive plan funded by multiple international organisations.