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“I feel like I’m leaving my family” - 10 years of building ‘belonging’ for Syrian refugee children.

15/5/2023

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Mayassa has been teaching at the school we support in Zahle, Lebanon since it started back in 2013. After ten years of incredible work supporting Syrian refugee children, she’s leaving to start a new life in the Netherlands. We want to take a moment to celebrate Mayassa’s dedication, and the incredible contribution she has made to building her school family.

Finding Humanity - A report from Kyaka II refugee settlement, Uganda

12/4/2023

Gemma from COTEUK and Marble from COTE Africa sat together smiling looking at a laptop

Gemma Driver

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager
I work on monitoring and evaluating our work and how we can improve our programmes.

4 minutes read time

I’ve recently returned from my first visit to Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda, where we provide pre-school learning to mainly refugee children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Here are some reflections from the trip…

My Story Can Restore Hope - Meet John, a Teacher in Kyaka II Refugee Settlement

12/4/2023

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John Byamungu Nachale is a refugee teacher who is working with Children on the Edge to pioneer a new approach to early years education for Congolese refugee children in Uganda.

He was attacked and left for dead when he lived in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo), and had to flee the country having lost everything.

He tells us the story of his journey, and how working to educate some of the youngest children fleeing his home country has begun to restore his hope.

Life on the edge for Rohingya refugees

10/4/2023

3 mins read time

Conditions for over a million Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest refugee camp are dire.

People living in Kutupalong camp, Bangladesh are truly living on ‘the edge’, facing poverty and violence, trapped in dangerous conditions and unable to leave. It’s here, Children on the Edge have been working for over a decade, supporting education for thousands of refugee children.

Monthly Highlights from Children on the Edge

31/3/2023

Monthly Highlights from COTE March 2023

Every month we receive lots of fantastic news from our programmes, our partners and our wonderful supporters and we know that it can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve compiled some of our highlights from the month to share with you.

This month our highlights include Rachel’s OBE ceremony, Iryna’s story and our first video from Kachin State, Myanmar.

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Meet Iryna Gorbachova from Ukraine

8/3/2023

Iryna, a Ukrainian refugee with her nine year old daughter - they are outside on the grass and huddled together smiling

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Iryna is a marketing professional who fled Ukraine to Romania with her nine year old daughter and her parents last February, when the Russian attacks made it too dangerous to stay any longer. Read her story...

Meet Alexandra Dblanari - a Romanian psychologist working with Ukraininan refugee children

7/3/2023

Alexandra, a young Romanian women with thick brown hair is holding up a paper mask with three Ukrainian refugees - teenage girls whose faces are blurred

Alexandra is a psychologist working at the Iasi orphanage centre in Romania, supported by Children on the Edge. The centre houses and cares for over 40 Ukrainian refugee children and provides daily activities, social work and help with trauma recovery. Read her story...

A year of conflict: Ukrainian refugees need our support now more than ever

26/2/2023

Ben Wilkes, our Chief Operating Officer, shares what he was doing a year ago to coordinate our response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since then he's been in regular contact with our partners in Romania and Moldova and made several trips to the region.

He tells us how the situation for refugees has changed over the year and what Children on the Edge are doing to help...

Ukraine Crisis One Year On: Our Impact

24/2/2023

Refugees arriving at the border in Siret, Romania in February 2022

A year ago today (24th February), Russia launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine by land, air and sea. This was the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War II. Thousands of Ukrainian families had no choice but to flee their homeland, taking only what they could carry.

With a history of working in Moldova and Romania, which both border Ukraine, Children on the Edge responded immediately. Thanks to the generous outpouring of support from our community we were able to make an impact as refugees arrived, then throughout the year as they came to terms with the longer term consequences of the war.

Teaching the Benefits of Play, Mindfulness and Yoga for Refugees in Uganda

31/1/2023

A group yoga session outside in green space with around 15 people doing 'triangle' pose led by two adults in the middle of a circle

We are thrilled to be working with Learn to Play Botswana, who have just returned from Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda, where they have been training our staff, caregivers (what we would know as ‘preschool teachers’), and the local volunteers who support the programme on the importance of mindful play and creativity.