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Dubai: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, will address the closing ceremony of the Dubai Cares charity campaign which will be held on Sunday at Madinat Jumeirah, hosting campaign organisers, students, volunteers and business people.
Launched on September 19 by Shaikh Mohammad, the eight-week campaign raised more than Dh1.7 billion in funds from UAE-based businesses and the public.
The ceremony will celebrate the milestones of Dubai Cares and will be attended by Shaikh Mohammad's sons and daughters, who acted as ambassadors for the campaign which took them to Yemen, Chad, the Comoros Islands, Sudan, Djibouti and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where they noted the educational requirements for the respective countries.
Based on a long-term strategy of investing in community-based education programmes, Dubai Cares will use the donations to build and renovate schools, train teachers, promote gender equality in education, provide teaching materials, offer scholarships, organise school feeding programmes and establish annual medical check-ups for students in some of the poorest countries in the world.
Dubai Cares was launched to channel Dubai's philanthropic efforts towards education in poor countries around the world.
The campaign is a global drive to help countries achieve their UN Millennium Development Goals of providing primary education to every child by 2015. It is founded on Shaikh Mohammad's belief that education is the best long-term solution to poverty and an effective engine for national development.
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