DEWA provides an encouraging and positive working environment that achieves stability for working women

DEWA provides an encouraging and positive working environment that achieves stability for working women

Dubai, UAE: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) provides a motivational and positive working environment that contributes to improving the capabilities of its female employees, achieving a balance between the social, professional and personal lives for working mothers, and enhancing their happiness. This will enable their continuous success and excellence and foster their active participation in building the nation and the next generations. This is in line with the Dubai Social Agenda 33 to ensure the social stability of Emirati families in Dubai. DEWA was one of the first government entities to establish childcare centres to take care of the children of female employees. These nurseries operate at the highest international standards of modern education, providing educational, cultural, and recreational activities that contribute to staff children’s proper upbringing. Today, DEWA has the most childcare centres compared to other government departments in Dubai. The total number of children who have graduated from DEWA’s nurseries reached 447 by the end of 2023. DEWA recently launched an electronic portal for its nurseries. The portal allows DEWA’s female employees to register their children and monitor their daily activities and the monthly plans organised by the five childcare centres in DEWA’s head office, the Sustainable