(13 Feb 2025)
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 13 February 2025
1. Wide of stage for announcement of nominees for the teacher prize on stage
UPSOUND: "Ladies and gentlemen, our nominees"
2. Wide of stage with pictures of some of the nominees, including the winner
3. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE, on stage
UPSOUND: "Mansour al-Mansour from Saudi Arabia"
4. Wide of Sheikh Hamdan on stage, with picture of the winner on screen behind him
5. Winner walking on stage and shaking hands with Shiekh Hamdan’
6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mansour al-Mansour, winner of the $1m Global Teacher Prize:
“I started going out, especially in the evenings, to see what the people in my country need, especially the less educated, the poor, the orphans. People always have pity on orphans, and if they want to help them, they usually do so by giving them food and water only. But there’s little education. Through a study, I found that orphans are less educated, so I wanted to pay attention to them. Because I have the energy and the passion and the love for education.”
7. Al-Mansour given award by Sheikh Hamdan
8. Wide of Al-Mansour walking off stage, with his picture on the big screen
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Mansour al-Mansour, winner of the $1m Global Teacher Prize:
“We’re now working on a project called ‘life skills’, and we enroll students in it. Some of these skills include dialogue, communications, and financial awareness. We did a huge project for the poor called financial awareness. We enabled a lot of students in business matters, some even opened their own shops.”
10. Al-Mansour and other people with award posing for photo
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Mansour al-Mansour, winner of the $1m Global Teacher Prize:
“I’m working on a lot of projects, I wouldn’t say they’re suspended, but the goal is to make them happen within one, two, or five years. Now, with this prize money, a five-year (project) can happen in one year.”
12. Al-Mansour holding award
STORYLINE:
A Saudi educator known for his charity work and instructing prisoners won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize on Thursday.
Mansour al-Mansour received the award at the end of the World Governments Summit in Dubai, an annual event that draws leaders from across the globe.
Al-Mansour is also an author and is known for work in his community, including a program that helped ensure people had access to air conditioning maintenance during Saudi Arabia’s scorching summer months.
The prize is awarded by the Varkey Foundation, whose founder, Sunny Varkey, established the for-profit GEMS Education company that runs dozens of schools in Egypt, Qatar and the UAE.
Al-Mansour is the ninth teacher to win the award from the foundation, which first began handing out the prize in 2015.
Past winners have included a Kenyan teacher from a remote village who gave away most of his earnings to the poor, a Palestinian primary school teacher who teaches her students about non-violence and a Canadian educator who taught a remote Arctic village of Inuit students.
GEMS Education, or Global Education Management Systems, is one of the world’s largest private school operators and is believed to be worth billions.
Its success has followed that of Dubai, where only private schools offer classes for the children of the foreigners who power its economy.
GEMS plans to open a school later this year targeting the children of the ultra-wealthy families now moving to booming, skyscraper-studded Dubai.
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