Dubai: Dubai Cares brings UAE residents the chance to experience learning in a refugee camp through a 360-degree virtual reality clip, as part of the country’s Innovation Week.

The showcase, which is placed at the Boulevard in Emirates Towers includes a video captured in a refugee school within a Syrian refugee camp.

The video, which can be viewed through virtual reality headsets, allows viewers to follow a young Syrian student in a refugee school while listening to the narration of her mother telling the story behind the family’s quest for education. The virtual reality video aims to highlight the vulnerability of children whose education has been impacted or denied altogether.

Tareq Al Gurg, chief executive officer at Dubai Cares, pointed out that a team has visited various countries affected by conflict and natural disasters to document the real stories of children affected by emergencies, as a part of the production process of the #LastILearned campaign, which was launched on October 19, 2016.

“During our visit to a Syrian refugee camp, we were inspired by the stories we heard from children and their parents and we came back with the decision to participate in the UAE Innovation Week and make use of virtual reality, beyond gaming and entertainment, as a tool for immersive and impactful storytelling,” he said.

The showcase also features an interactive touchscreen map that provides visitors an insight into Dubai Cares’ work in developing countries, particularly those affected by emergencies such as Lebanon, Niger, Palestine and Sierra Leone. Participants are invited to take a quiz on an iPad consisting of five questions through which they will be prompted to select one of the two possible answers. The “Would you rather” quiz highlights the impossible choices people affected by emergencies have to make on a daily basis.

Today, one in 113 people is either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum, and more than half of the world’s refugees are children. Refugee children are five times more likely to be out of school than non-refugees.