Inspiring initiatives and assistance that have contributed to improving the educational situation globally

The UAE participates with the world in efforts to eradicate illiteracy

The UAE has launched several initiatives and projects to support efforts to combat illiteracy at the Arab level.

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During the past decades, the UAE has achieved an educational boom that has enabled it to almost eliminate illiteracy locally, and to contribute to addressing the educational situation in many Arab countries, reaching global competition in scientific and knowledge fields, and making Emirati experts in the fields of space, renewable energy, and many rare scientific disciplines. .

In addition, the UAE has launched several initiatives and projects to support efforts to combat illiteracy at the Arab level, as its initiatives in Yemen and Palestine, and refugee camps, have contributed to improving the educational situation and combating illiteracy.

Today, the UAE joins the world in its celebration of the International Literacy Day, which falls on the eighth of September of each year, and has succeeded in building a cultured and conscious society, where all its members enjoy the right to education according to the highest international standards, and has set out to fight illiteracy at the Arab and international levels through many initiatives and constructive contributions .

The initiatives and material and in-kind aid provided by the UAE to the concerned international organizations and the governments of the countries receiving refugees have contributed to alleviating the severity of the crisis of depriving refugees of educational opportunities.

Adult Education

In Yemen, last January, the UAE launched the second phase of a project to establish three centers for literacy and adult education, and three centers for memorizing the Holy Qur’an in the districts of Al-Hiss, Al-Tuhayat and Al-Khokha in Yemen, to be added to its humanitarian efforts, which included building and maintaining dozens of schools, institutes and universities, and contributing to providing Salaries of educational personnel.

The value of the aid provided by the UAE in the education sector, in response to the Syrian crisis and those affected by it, during the period from 2012 to January 2019, amounted to about 190.1 million dirhams.

On the Palestinian level, the UAE is one of the most important countries that support the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), to help it implement its educational programs for male and female students, and to ensure that they obtain their rights to education.

According to "UNRWA", education acquired more than 80% of the value of the Emirati support to the agency during the period from 2014 to 2019, which amounted to more than $ 164 million.

Dissemination of science

Since the announcement of its union on the second of December 1972, the Emirati leadership has taken upon itself the responsibility of spreading knowledge and combating illiteracy within its strategic goal of "education is a right for all". Schools have opened throughout the country, literacy and adult education centers, women's advancement associations, and social development associations in various regions. From the state, to eradicate illiteracy, to take confident steps and remarkable achievements in this field.

The UAE is at the forefront of a number of competitive indicators in the education sector, as it ranked first in the world in the primary school completion rate index and the retention rate index to the last grade of secondary school.

The UAE guarantees the right to education for all its citizens, as it guarantees spending on them in all government schools and educational institutions, and its laws stipulate compulsory education up to the secondary level, and it obligates those in charge of caring for the child to follow his regularity and continuity in education, according to the dates set by the Ministry of Education.

Pioneering initiatives

The UAE is carrying the torch of knowledge and combating illiteracy, and among the pioneering initiatives it is leading in this field is the Literacy Challenge, which was announced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, in 2017, with the aim of educating 30 million people. An Arab child and youth until 2030, the "Reading Nation Initiative", which distributes five million books in 15 countries, and the "Arab Reading Challenge", to encourage reading in the Arab world through the commitment of more than one million students to read 50 million books annually.

The Literacy Challenge Forum, organized by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation in its first session, on 24-25 February, in Dubai, in partnership with the United Nations Development Program and UNESCO, discussed the most prominent axes of the phenomenon of illiteracy in the Arab world, and ways to confront The challenges it creates, and the proposed solutions to address them.

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One million dirhams is the value of the UAE's response to the education sector in Syria.

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Some of the UAE’s support for "UNRWA" goes to support education.

The UAE has succeeded in building an educated and conscious society, in which all members enjoy the right to education according to the highest standards.

The UAE's initiatives and aid contributed to alleviating the crisis of depriving refugees of educational opportunities.

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