How Qatar’s Education Above All Grew into Prestigious Education Advocate Globally -1-

Highlighting the EAA's cooperation with the UNESCO, Al Sulaiti said the Educate a Child program had backed the UNESCO initiatives such as the GEM 2019 report, in addition to another joint project that provided education for hundreds of thousands of children in the ASEAN countries. He added that the PEIC rolled out TRACE, the Track Attacks on Education (TRACE) Data Portal, a tool applying humanitarian technology to generate reliable, timely data on attacks on education to be freely shared. This comes at a time when the Al Fakhoora program contributed to supporting the education system in Iraq by developing new curricula and training teachers benefitting 930,776 children. The Educate a Child program, another cooperation project between the EAA and the OHCHR, seeks to provide primary education to the most marginalized children in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, where more than 1.5 million children benefited from the project. The program also collaborated with the OHCHR to launch of the Youth Advisory Board (YAB), a project striving to safeguard and promote the human rights of youth in conflict. In addition, the EAA collaborated with the UNRWA through the Al Fakhoora program to maintain 43 schools damaged during the conflict in Gaza, benefiting 567,600 children. The Al Fakhoora also cooperated with the UNDP on two projects, one of which was the Dynamic Futures Scholarship Program that empowered 1,000 Palestinian youths through higher education, training and community activities. The two sides also cooperated through the Right to Education program to rebuild and restore 99 educational facilities devastated in the conflict in Gaza, while enhancing access to education for 70,000 children and youth, supporting mental health and economic opportunities, in addition to cooperating with UNRWA to return about 70,000 students to schools in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. In addition to these projects, the Foundation cooperated with the UNFPA through the Al Fakhoora program to implement 250 youth-led humanitarian initiatives , targeting 18,000 women and youth, a project seeking to rebuild hope for Palestinians in Gaza project. Source: Qatar News Agency