Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Buthaina bint Ali Al Jabr Al Nuaimi and Director-General of QFFD H E Khalifa Al Kuwari with other officials during the signing ceremony at Doha Forum. PIC: RAJAN VADAKKEMURIYIL
Doha: In cooperation with the Education Above All Foundation (EAA), the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) signed seven agreements to support the education sector in a number of least developed countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America through EAA’s Educate A Child program.
QFFD signed agreements in the Republic of Uganda, the federal republic of Somalia, the Republic of Sierra Leone, the Republic of Tanzania, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and Haiti, on the sidelines of the Doha Forum, which concluded on Sunday.
These agreements support projects designed to enable access to education for more than 1.6 million out of school children and youth. The agreements focus on several important activities to provide learning skills, including developing educational curricula, refining educational techniques and methods, global citizenship, and improving infrastructure for schools and classrooms. As for the projects, they seek to address the livelihood requirements of water and good food for students, teachers, and teaching staff and ensure the cleanliness of schools with good sanitation.
Awareness campaigns for parents will address the importance of education and combating the problems of child labor and children dropping out of school and will be done in cooperation with local community leaders and influential personalities in the beneficiary countries.
It also aims to empower youth and local stakeholders in the Republic of South Sudan with knowledge and skills essential for human rights advocacy with a focus on the right to education, being the first key to peace, peacebuilding, and sustainable development to become active global citizens in fragile and conflict-affected communities of South Sudan. Director General of QFFD H E Khalifa Al Kuwari affirmed that these agreements, in cooperation with our strategic partner EAA, are an affirmation of the State of Qatar’s keenness to support education and secure a decent life, achieve peace and justice, which supports the process of sustainable human development through which the desired development goals of the United Nations are achieved.
For his part, Chief Executive Officer of EAA Fahad Al Sulaiti said that the Foundation continues to provide access to quality education opportunities for millions of the world’s most invisible children and is committed to ensuring that all children go to school after having surpassed our goal of enrolling 10 million children into primary education across the world.
