Dubai Cares, in partnership with The Digital School, launched the first comprehensive and accredited Arabic online school designed to offer flexible hybrid and distance learning. The program aimed to blend live and self-paced virtual classes across core subjects including Mathematics, Science, Arabic, Computer Studies, English, and others. It specifically targeted young people living in refugee camps and marginalized communities, regardless of their social, economic, or educational backgrounds.

The Digital School currently operates in multiple countries, including Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Mauritania, Colombia, and Bangladesh, where thousands of students benefited from its innovative, modern, and accessible learning model. In line with its ambition to reach one million disadvantaged learners worldwide, the school began scaling its model globally.

As part of this expansion, The Digital School launched an initiative in Erbil, Iraq, to equip 50 primary and lower-secondary schools with digital learning spaces. In collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Erbil, the school transformed Science and Math curricula for grades 5 to 8 into a dynamic hybrid learning experience. This included integrating videos, presentations, articles, and interactive quizzes into the traditional classroom setup, hosted on The Digital School’s learning management system. In addition to core subjects, the program also offered entrepreneurship education and foundational literacy and numeracy enrichment to support a holistic learning journey for underserved students.