Young Rohingya refugees strive to keep dreams of an education alive
Most Rohingya children have no access to education at all, but are prepared to overcome almost any obstacle for any opportunity to learn. By Caroline Gluck in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh They don’t have desks or chairs. But in a bamboo-built room decorated with...
Venezuelan refugee’s dreams of becoming a doctor on hold as she struggles to provide for her family
While many Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Colombia have enrolled in school, without the right papers, they cannot be issued diplomas and may not sit the national college entrance exam, putting their future at risk All her life Daniela Puente dreamed of becoming a...
Refugee education in crisis: More than half of the world’s school-age refugee children do not get an education
Of the 7.1 million refugee children of school age, 3.7 million – more than half – do not go to school, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says in a report released today. The report, Stepping Up: Refugee Education in Crisis, shows that as refugee children grow...