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Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has set up the Thuraya Fund for promoting literacy across the Arab world in collaboration with Rawafed Development & Learning Centre. The initiative is part of the global contributions of RTA’s Foundation.

The launch of Thuraya Fund aims at hitting two goals; the first is to support our government’s drive to help with the literacy of 30 million Arab youth by 2030, and the second is to support RTA Foundation’s global contribution to education. The Fund uses intensive and quick-learning tools to help the literacy and instil the basics of Arabic language in children of families with limited incomes.

The launch of this creative initiative from Dubai is a clear manifestation of our government’s persistent efforts to promote education, culture and charitable activities all over Arab nations. The initiative started from Egypt and targeted the literacy of 2500 children aged 8-13 years comprising eight phases over nine weeks only.

Thuraya Fund offers a new and unique solution to illiteracy. It is  an integrated mobile educational programme that adopts an effective method to accelerate the reading process and learn the principles of mathematics. It uses interactive learning tools including books, flashcards, scalable stories, and a teaching  guide.

The Fund uses the principles of modern education, learning and growth. It is based on Montessori; an innovative learning method of discovering letters and their voices by sensory recognition. It is based on the classification of Bloom's Taxonomy and adopts modern educational theories to foster an encouraging learning environment, and a sound interaction between the teacher and the student.

The Fund seeks to accelerate the reading process from zero to fluency in a 200-word text. Learning components, including teachers, are provided by Rawafed Development & Learning Centre, with the support of RTA.