Wednesday, February 20, 2008

UNICEF Partners with Dubai Cares

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is partnering with Dubai Cares, a program recently launched Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai to support education. Together UNICEF and Dubai Cares hope to increase education programs around the work in an effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

There are 92 million children in the world who are not currently receiving primary education. The Millennium Development Goals express a goal to achieve universal primary education by 2015. The funding from Dubai Cares will be used across the globe in Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe to build and upgrade schools. (what type of schools? Madrassas? Christian Schools? I think not. This is something we must ask the UN to document, and the teaching programs to be implemented must be public and open to discussion-comments by Allyson Rowen Taylor)

 

To learn more about this:

Check out the MDG Monitor to see what the progress is for achieving the Millennium Development Goals:

http://www.mdgmonitor.org/

Read the full article at:

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25660&Cr=education&Cr1=

 

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