At the age of two Mardi fled with his family from their ancestral village as Saddam Hussein depopulated rural Kurdistan. Before he could start education his family was again forced to move, this time to one of the collective towns…
When funding for education for displaced people is reduced, it is post-primary education (PPE) which suffers first. Some of the consequences are: In Kenya’s Dadaab camps budgetary restrictions have capped the number of students admitted to secondary school. The population…
Located on the banks of the River Nile in the northwest corner of Uganda, Rhino Camp hosts approximately 26,000 refugees, the majority of whom are from southern Sudan. Rhino Camp consists of widely-scattered residential areas over an area of 225…
In 1998 Sierra Leonean and Liberian refugees were transferred from volatile border areas to large, pre-planned camps further into Guinea. The refugees travelled in large trucks, each being allowed to take a few personal belongings with them – blanket, bucket,…
School meals encourage displaced children to attend class and help them concentrate on their studies. In 2003 the UN World Food Programme (WFP) fed more than 15 million children in schools in 69 countries, many of them recovering from conflict.…
School feeding alone does not address the issue of quality of education. It is not sound educational psychology to provide extrinsic motivation where the educational structure in itself does not provide sufficient intrinsic motivation to bring and keep children in…
Five years after the NATO military campaign the role of education in Kosovo remains politically charged and controversial. The viewpoints of Kosovar Albanians, Serbs and international educationalists do not often coincide. Perceptions of what has taken place in the education…
History is all important in Rwanda. To interpret education in Rwanda without considering history is to fail to describe the experience of Rwandan childhood. Since the introduction of modern schooling there has been disequilibrium as large social groups have at…
Many international NGOs rely on two key strategies to provide education services during or just after a violent conflict: fostering community participation and recruiting and training community members (‘paraprofessional teachers’). In the early 1990s – a time when education was…
Humanitarian aid is traditionally seen as a logistical and practical activity and little attention has been paid to the need for analysis. However, things are changing. UNHCR, UNESCO and others have begun to collect examples of ‘good practice’ in the…