Charity’s Nepal projects safe


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Dubai Cares has announced that its children’s education programmes in Nepal’s far-western region have not been affected by the earthquake on Saturday.

The organisation has been active in Nepal since 2009, state news agency Wam said.

Programmes include the construction of a school, teacher training and an adult literacy programme, benefitting 2,100 primary school-age children in 14 schools and 840 illiterate women from rural areas.

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