Kutupalong in Bangladesh is the world's largest refugee camp and home to over
880, 000 Rohingya refugees who have fled violence in Myanmar.
Children on the Edge has been working here since 2010, supporting
education for refugee children who are otherwise cut off from learning.
Currently, 100 colourful classrooms in 50 learning centres provide
high quality education in a child friendly space, for refugee children.
JISMA is ten years old and from a village in Myanmar called 'Shoeja', where she had a 'beautiful life'. She played sports, helped her mother and enjoyed the natural world and animals around her.
After her family was tortured, they had to make the difficult journey to Bangladesh, where they now live in the cramped Kutupalong refugee camp and life is very different. Jisma has nightmares and is often unable to sleep. Jisma attends one of our learning centres and loves to get lost in books. She is happy that she has access to books at school and hopes to become a teacher one day. The learning centre has helped Jisma to make friends in the camp and she now spends a lot of time with them playing sports. |
WORKING ON 'THE EDGE' IN KUTUPALONG
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WHAT WE DO TO HELP
Since 2010 we have been working to provide education and support to Rohingya refugee and slum dwelling children in Bangladesh. Working with our partner organisation, Mukti Cox’s Bazar, we now support 150 classrooms in the Kutupalong camp providing education for nearly 7000 children. 75 colourful learning centres encourage creativity and self expression with digital lessons, plenty of play and basic health support in safe spaces with trusted adults.
Children on the Edge were well placed to respond when the crisis hit in 2017 and hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fled Myanmar into Bangladesh. Together with Mukti Cox’s Bazar, we worked quickly to construct 75 learning centres in the Kutupalong camp and train 150 Bangladeshi and Rohingya teachers.
Each learning centre has two classrooms, which are colourful spaces with vibrant ‘gardens’ growing outside. Rohingya children benefit from daily access to basic education, play, health inputs, nutritional support and creative opportunities.
Children on the Edge were well placed to respond when the crisis hit in 2017 and hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fled Myanmar into Bangladesh. Together with Mukti Cox’s Bazar, we worked quickly to construct 75 learning centres in the Kutupalong camp and train 150 Bangladeshi and Rohingya teachers.
Each learning centre has two classrooms, which are colourful spaces with vibrant ‘gardens’ growing outside. Rohingya children benefit from daily access to basic education, play, health inputs, nutritional support and creative opportunities.
Daily digital lessons are projected onto screens in each classroom, to break down language barriers and enable children to genuinely understand and learn. This technology also gives them the opportunity to experience something of life beyond the confines of the camp.
Through ‘Moja Kids’, their own online platform, students create video updates to share back and forth with children outside the camps. This not only gives them a voice and a place to express their talents and creativity, but enables them to interact and tackle their sense of isolation.
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