by Clare Hammond & Victoria Milko
October 8th 2019.
Questions raised over efforts to give Rohingya children and youth formal education under Myanmar curriculum.
According to UNICEF about 461,000 of the 910,000 refugees in Cox's Bazar are children [File: Abir Abdullah/EPA]
On May 13, a group of Rohingya refugee education leaders had the rare chance to ask some of the questions that had been weighing on their minds for more than two years.
For the first time, they were meeting representatives from the United Nations and international NGOs tasked with providing education to about half a million Rohingya refugee children living in camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Minutes of the meeting obtained by Al Jazeera, show how the community leaders questioned the officials about the slow effort to give refugees formal education, the absence of a Myanmar curriculum in the camps, and the lack of consultation with the community.
