Adopt a Camp Program

Dubai is home to some of the wealthiest people in the world, but it is also full of labourers who work tirelessly to build the crazy buildings, malls, and homes which they enjoy. There are buses filled with construction workers in monochromatic uniforms every morning and late at night. The workers are usually Indian or from other South Asian countries, and live/work in brutal conditions. Their employers, while offering them 10 times the salary they would earn in their home countries, also often mistreat them and do not pay them in a timely manner. This has led to several high-profile suicides among workers in Dubai. BBC did an informative piece on this issue a few years ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4249223.stm

I got involved with the Adopt-A-Camp program, working to improve living conditions and make care packages for labourers. We attended a huge care package assembly event, which helped ease the pain of the 12,800 men targetted by Adopt-A-Camp.