Dubai Cares backs education on Caribbean and Pacific islands
Dubai Cares announced four programmes worth Dh12.8 million in total that will address key educational issues for thousands of children in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean islands.
More than 6,350 schoolchildren in Antigua and Barbuda, St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean, as well as Vanuatu and Kiribati in the Pacific, will benefit from the programmes, which aim to support countries and islands affected by climate change.
The programme in St Vincent and the Grenadines, in partnership with the Zero Hunger Trust Fund, will provide one nutritious meal a day to 2,139 children in 12 primary schools, and nutrition awareness will be offered to parents and guardians.
In Antigua and Barbuda, Dubai Cares will work with the Extended Arms Foundation to renovate the Villa Primary School, Antigua, benefiting 355 schoolchildren.
A two-year programme is being rolled out in Vanuatu in partnership with Unicef to improve the quality of early childhood education; water, sanitation and hygiene facilities; nutrition and child protection. The intervention also addresses parenting support and improving quality of service provision at early childhood centres. It will target pre-schools and parents in 84 communities in Penama province.
In Kiribati, Dubai Cares’ programme will support the government in developing policy and quality standards to improve the existing national curriculum and services in partnership with Unicef. The two-year programme will benefit about 1,000 schoolchildren.