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The UNHCR report calls for action for millions of young refugees living in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.
GENEVA – COVID-19 poses a serious risk to the schooling of refugees worldwide, according to a strong report published through the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR.
The “Gathering for Refugee Education” report notes that some of all young refugees do not attend school and calls for rapid and ambitious action through the foreign network to counteract the catastrophic effects of coronavirus.
“We deprive them of their future. “
“Half of the world’s young refugees have already gone to school,” says Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
“After all they have endured, we cannot deprive them of their long journey by denying them an education today. Despite the huge and demanding situations posed by the pandemic, with more foreigners for refugees and their host communities, we can expand cutting-edge tactics to protect critical progress in refugee education in recent years.
The report notes that while young people in all countries have struggled with the effect of COVID-19, young refugees have been particularly disadvantaged. UN figures show that 1. 6 billion students worldwide, adding up to millions of refugees, have been interrupted from schooling.
Prior to the pandemic, a refugee child was twice as likely not to attend school as a non-refugee child. This scenario is likely to get worse: many may not be able to return to school due to school closures. , difficulties in paying fees, uniforms or books, lack of access to the generation or because they have to paint their families.
However, the report also highlights a number of inspiring examples of how young refugees and their refugees have continued to weather the pandemic.
“From refugees and host communities to teachers, personal sector partners, national and local authorities, innovators and humanitarian agencies . . . all have discovered many tactics for pandemic schooling. It was a demonstration of collaboration, generosity and artistic thinking. , combined with the hobby and determination of millions of young people,” Grandi says.
During the confinement, refugees and instructors, governments, UNHCR partners, all discovered ingenious tactics to keep education going, from Egypt moving their entire online program to an instructor at the Dadaab refugee camp who broadcast classes on a local radio station.
Also included were mobile study rooms in Bolivia, new roles for parent-teacher associations in Chad, and a learning content platform in Uganda that has discovered a way around the barrier of low or non-existent connectivity.
The report indicates that without further support, stable and hard-earned increases in enrolment in schools, universities and technical and vocational education can simply be permanently cancelled, which may undermine efforts for purpose four of sustainable progression to ensure inclusion. and an education of equitable quality for all.
In a harsh and definitive word for the report, the Vodafone Foundation and UNHCR’s ambassador for Instant Netpaintings schools, Mohamed Salah, said: “Ensuring quality education means less poverty and suffering in the future. some of the world’s poorest regions will face a bleak future. But if we paint like a team, as one, we can give them the chance they deserve to have a dignified future. Let’s not miss this opportunity. “
Adapting to the limits imposed by COVID-19 has been especially complicated for 85% of the world’s refugees living in emerging or less evolved countries: mobile phones, tablets, laptops, smart connectivity, reasonable or unlimited data, even radio stations. . those are not readily available to displaced communities.
“I’m involved in the effect on refugee girls. “
Knowledge of the 2019 report is based on reports from 12 countries hosting more than a portion of the world’s refugee children. While there is 77% gross tuition at school number one, only 31% of other young people are enrolled in high school. level, only 3% of young refugees are registered.
However, in distant global averages, these statistics are progress. High school enrolment has increased, with tens of thousands of newly educated refugee children; 2% accumulating in 2019 in 2019. However, the pandemic risks counteracting this and other very important advances. For refugee girls, the risk is serious.
Based on UNHCR data, the Malala Fund has estimated that, as a result of COVID-19, some of all secondary refugee women will not return when the study rooms reopen this month. it was already less than 10%, all women are at risk of leaving school permanently, a frightening prediction that would have an effect on generations to come.
“I am especially involved in the effect on refugee girls. Education is not only a human right, but coverage and economic benefits for refugee girls, their families and their school communities are obvious. The foreign network simply can’t help but be,” to offer them the opportunities that come from school,” Grandi says.
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