GEMS Education Students Leave Messages of Hope for Children Through UNICEF’s First Global Campaign

Press release

Published November 21st, 2017 - 07:32 GMT

A GEMS student writes her message of hope for children around the world.

Students from GEMS Modern Academy expressed their solidarity for less fortunate children from Syria, Namibia, Greece, Sierra Leone and El Salvador by learning about their stories and leaving their messages of hope at a United Nations Children’s Fund’s exhibition.

Titled ‘There is Hope’, the exhibition at Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) showcased UNICEF’s first global campaign capturing stories of how lives of children and adults have transformed significantly through funds and donations.

Celebrating UNICEF’s 70th anniversary, the campaign demonstrated the impact and importance of UNICEF’s work, through first-hand accounts of people that received support as children and had their lives transformed as a result.

GEMS Modern Academy students learnt about these children from an interactive photo wall and videos in preparation of World Children’s Day on November 20.

Background Information

GEMS Education

In 1959, two teachers, KS Varkey and his wife Mariamma, arrived in Dubai.

At the time, Dubai was a burgeoning trade centre on the Arabian Gulf. The Varkey family had left Kerala, India to seek a better life for their family. What they found was a real need to educate children arriving in the city from around the world.

Their son, Sunny, added a visionary’s ambition to a practitioner's experience. From simple roots in a family of teachers, GEMS Education, is today an international company with schools and education services across the Middle East. We still share the same mission - to provide a quality education to everyone.