Dubai Cares

Launched in September 2007 by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai to improve children’s access to primary education in developing countries, Dubai Cares is actively involved in implementing comprehensive development programs in countries with the highest gap in primary education.

In partnership with international aid and development agencies, Dubai Cares is contributing to shaping the global agenda for effective and impactful interventions to achieve, by 2015, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3 – to guarantee universal primary education and to promote gender equality respectively. The philanthropic establishment is also contributing to UN MDG 8, which entails developing a global partnership for development.

To date, Dubai Cares has implemented comprehensive primary education programs in 24 countries including Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Chad, Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Mali, Mauritania, Nepal, Niger, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Yemen, and with Palestinian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon.