March 2006

Dear Educator,

Eleven year-old Aliyah (L) studies at a private English lesson in Kabul. Aliyah's family returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan several months before. Photo: UNHCR/N. Behring

• Win a trip to Washington
  Deadline March 31
  Remind your students to enter the Sixth Annual World Refugee Day Poster Contest sponsored by UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie. Winning students will receive a trip to Washington! Deadline March 31, 2006.

• Have your school featured on UNrefugees.org
  More than half of the world's refugees are children. Forced to flee their homes from persecution and war, many are robbed of their childhood and forced to fight for their basic survival. Help provide protection, clean water and emergency aid to refugee children affected by tragedy through the Lend a Helping Hand service-learning project for students. Deadline March 15, 2006.

• News to use in the classroom
  Chad/Darfur: A happy start to the New Year for one lost Darfur boy and his sister
  Like millions of Sudanese displaced by fighting in Darfur, young Ibrahim was left on his own at the age of 14 - separated from his family in the attack on his village. For two years he survived on odd jobs until last October, when he heard his older sister was living with her own children and husband in one of UNHCR's 12 refugee camps across the border in Chad.
  
  Pakistan earthquake: For children, classes under canvas offer room with a view
  Fourteen-year-old Nazbergam and her sister Sabermina, 15, have been living in the Banda Sahib Khan relief camp in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) since October's earthquake destroyed their home and those of much of their village. But amid the hardship is a reason to be grateful. For the first time in their lives, the teen-aged girls are going to school.

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