Aid groups in the Rohingya refugee camps are slowly building an education system for 300,000 children in Bangladesh.
Shamsuddin, a Rohingya refugee
himself, teaches Burmese language to Rohingya children. Like many of the
teachers in the refugee camps he has only finished high school.
Only about two-thirds of the Rohingya refugees ages 4 to 14 have access to education. Few refugees older than 14 have it.
Sixty-five percent of the
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh ages 4 to 14 have not even reached the
academic level of a first grader.
UNICEF and non-government
organizations have built about 2,000 learning centers in the refugee
camps and plan on having another 500 running by the end of this year.
Mohammed Hares is concerned about the quality of education his 9-year-old daughter Ruksana Begum is getting.
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