Rohingya Refugees Lack Schools, Qualified Teachers

VOA

South & Central Asia

May 11, 2019

 

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.

Aid Groups Face Challenges in Educating Rohingya Refugee Children

VOA
South & Central Asia
May 11, 2019
Dave Grunebaum

                                       Rohingya Refugees Lack Schools, Qualified Teachers

COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH —

Ruksana Begum and her classmates repeat after their teacher: “respect.”

The students are all Rohingya refugees who fled to Bangladesh from neighboring Myanmar. Nine-year-old Ruksana says she hopes to become a teacher herself one day. But her current instructor, as hard as he tries, is not really qualified for the job.

Geneva Palais Briefing Note: Education for Rohingya children in Bangladesh

unicf
03 May 2019
 
This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF spokesperson Christophe Boulierac – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

UNICEF/UN0203363/Sokol

GENEVA, 3 May 2019 – This week, UNICEF inaugurated the 2,000th learning center in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar of Bangladesh. More than 180,000 children are now learning in the 2,000 UNICEF-supported learning centres, taught by 4,000 teachers who have been trained by UNICEF partners. These children are aged between 4 to 14 years.

‘Existence of Rohingya at risk if children are not educated’

The Daily Star  
Friday, "April 12, 2019"

Former prime minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt has expressed her concern that a whole generation of Rohingyas could be lost if the absence of Rohingya refugee children in the education system is continued.

She made the remarks while visiting the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar on April 6 and 7, a press release of Save the Children said today.

HRW to Bangladesh: Give Rohingya Children Formal Schooling.

RADIO FREE ASIA
2019-04-02

yasmin, a Rohingya who was expelled from Leda High School for being a child of a refugee, helps her younger sister to study in Leda camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, March 5, 2019.

Reuters

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Bangladesh to offer Rohingya refugees formal secondary education, saying school officials in the southeast had expelled scores of Rohingya children because they lacked citizenship papers although they were born inside the country.

Myanmar -- investors should be cautious but take the risk.

         NIKKEI

ASIAN REVIEW

MARCH 27, 2019

If government pursues humanitarian agenda, foreign partners can back projects, even in Rakhine State.

Simon Tay

Aung San Suu Kyi told investors that "much of Rakhine's economic potential still remains untapped." © Reuters

A humanitarian crisis that has been brewing at the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh since 2016 is reaching a critical point. At Cox's Bazar, just inside Bangladesh, an estimated 740,000 displaced Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine State are encamped in temporary shelters, hoping that the international community will take them in as refugees or facilitate their safe return to the homes they claim in Myanmar.

Don't let them be a lost generation

The Daily Star
Sunday, "March 24, 2019"

Staff Correspondent

Rohingya youths urge int'l community to ensure better future for their children

Rohingya youths have called upon the international community to ensure their children do not become a “lost generation” without an education or future.

At the annual Global Education and Skills Forum organised by the Varkey Foundation, a global charity on child education, in Dubai from March 23 to 24, Ahmed Ullah and Zainab Arkani said their young people have been left with little hope of educating themselves out of poverty.

Myanmar needs more art researchers and wider breadth of knowledge

MYANMARTIMES
LAE PHYU PYA MYO MYINT | 22 MAR 2019

The wealth of Myanmar artistic legacy. Shin Moe Myint/The Myanmar Times

Art is never finished, only abandoned” said famous artist Leonardo Da Vinci. And so, the study and refining of the visual arts is an endless challenge. Most other countries have found it prudent to preserve valuable art so they may make art research and publish many art history books. All of that cultural information can then be printed and uploaded onto the internet and shared with the world. Alas, Myanmar misses that vital component and remains a mystery to many, even Myanmar people themselves.

EU extends US$252 million to support Myanmar education.

MYANMARTIMES 
22 MAR 2019

School children in Yangon. Phoe Wa/The Myanmar Times

The education budget support programme of the European Union (EU) in Myanmar was launched on March 21 in the capital city. The EU’s support will contribute to equal access to better quality education for all students in Myanmar with US$252 million (more than K380 billion).

Saving futures – the role of education in emergencies

FCA
Finn Church Aid
Education, General
14.3.2019

When thinking of children and youth in their usual environment, we think of them amidst their families and friends, in the playground, and first and foremost, in schools.

We grow up with school being a natural part of our lives. We are nervous on our first day in school, excited to learn how to read, write or count and soon after our first day, school has become part of our daily routines. Getting older, decisions such as choosing the type of secondary school, vocational training or university become key to our personal and professional development.

India: Study Group Allows Rohingya to Dream Big

Benar News
Rohit Wadhwaney, New Delhi
2019-03-13

A group of Rohingya study at a hostel run by the Rohingya Literacy Program in New Delhi, March 11, 2019. [Rohit Wadhwaney/BenarNews

Oblivious to the deafening noise of traffic outside, about a dozen Rohingya teens and young adults are engrossed in their textbooks – a rare sight in India among the displaced refugees from Myanmar who largely are relegated to doing odd jobs for survival.

UAE Foundation continues to provide educational assistance to Rohingya students.

Bernama.com
12/03/2019

KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 (Bernama) -- The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), through its embassy here, continues to provide educational assistance and aid for Rohingya students by donating RM300,000 today.

Rohingya run schools in India for rejected kids

LACROIX 
international 
Umar Manzoor Shah, Srinagar India
March 13, 2019 

Govt schools turn away children of Muslim refugees as Hindu groups in Kashmir demand they be deported to Myanmar

A bashful Tasleema Akhtar, 4, has her photo taken at a makeshift classroom inside a refugee camp in India's Jammu. She is among about 100 Rohingya children who are attending the preparatory school after government-run schools in the area began turning the refugees away. (Photo by Umar Manzoor Shah/ucanews.com)

“My Family Was Massacred Before My Eyes”: Riyaz, A 70-Year-Old Rohingya Refugee

YKA
YOUTH KI  AWAAZ

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TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENCE

During my work with Rohingya refugees in Jammu, I worked extensively for better health and education for them. Months after my joining, during a field survey, I met an elderly gentleman who I assumed must have been in his late 70s. He was accompanied by two children, a boy and a girl. Usually, my interactions with the refugees would remain confined to the health and education of their children, and I used to spend a lot of time convincing them to enroll their children in schools.

The task required extensive advocacy, as these kids were into rag picking, which would pay them around Rs 3000 per month, an amount which could help them run their lives.

Riyaz Karim. a Rohingya refugee, with his grandchildren.

When I met this old gentleman, I was surprised to know that he willingly sought enrollment of the children with him in any school. I was very curious to know how these children were related to him, and engaged him in a conversation. He smiled and said that they were his grandchildren. His own children were no more. Hearing this I offered him a chair and requested him to tell me how he reached Jammu.

RM300,000 education aid for Rohingyas

NEW 
STRAITSTIMES
By NST - March 13, 2019 @ 8:54am

THE Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation, through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) embassy in Malaysia, presented education aid worth RM300,000 to students from the Rohingya community living in Malaysia yesterday.

Government considering allowing refugees into public schools, hospitals

Free Malaysia Today News
by, Ainaa Aiman, February 19, 2019

KLANG: Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah says the government is considering plans to allow refugees access to public schools hospitals and the workforce.

“I think the government is listening to all these ideas,” he said in a press conference after a visit to the Rohingya Education Centre in Klang today.

Education and income-generation must be top priorities for Rohingya refugees

OXFAM

International

Published: 16 February 2019

Education and income-generating opportunities must be made top priorities for the nearly 1 million Rohingya still languishing in the world’s largest refugee camp almost 18 months after fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar, said three leading NGOs at the launch of a new UN funding plan for the crisis launched in Geneva today.