Dubai: Ten classrooms, four scientific laboratories, two staff rooms and other utility rooms were added to the Umm Al Qura School in Umm Al Quwain by the Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation.
The addition was made as part of the charity's programme titled With Science We Transcend which aims to back progress in the field of education in the UAE. Its strategy is to assist pupils with better schools.
Ebrahim Bu Melha, deputy head of the foundation's board of trustees, said — in a press conference held in Dubai — that the foundation continues to carry out similar projects to provide an educational infrastructure and help families educate their children by sharing the burden of day-to-day expenses.
The programme follows a system which covers costs without an eye on profits.
Bu Melha added that the second phase will cost Dh400,000 which will be used to improve facilities in the school and make it ready to receive an additional 900 pupils of both genders.
He added that with this, capacity would reach 1,150 pupils. He added that the second phase will take 16 months to complete.
The foundation had started building the additions for the school in cooperation with the Umm Al Quwain Charitable Association since 2007, which cost Dh1.3 million.
Bu Melha added that through an award introduced by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the foundation will be receiving 120 villas in Ajman and Umm Al Quwain at a cost of Dh90 million, with 60 villas in each emirate.
The villas will be presented to deserving nationals after the foundation studies their cases through a special committee set up for this initiative.
An additional 120 villas for UAE nationals are set to be built in Umm Al Quwain and Ras Al Khaimah with 60 villas in each emirate at a cost of Dh90 million. They are expected to be ready by February 2011.
