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UNHCR and UNICEF launch a $129 million appeal to get Iraqi children
back to school
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New Refugee Simulation Game, Against All Odds
3. UNHCR Videos on YouTube
4. Q&A with Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone
5. News to use in the classroom
1. Appeal for education for Iraqi refugee children
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arrival, Nagung Ging, is welcomed by family she last saw
nearly 20 years ago in Sudan. © UNHCR/J.Rae |
In July, the UN refugee agency and UNICEF launched a $129 million joint appeal on Friday to ensure tens of thousands of uprooted Iraqi children who have fled their homeland can resume their education.
Warning that a generation of Iraqis could grow up uneducated and alienated, the two UN agencies presented a plan to support host governments such as Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon in providing schooling for an additional 155,000 young Iraqi refugees during the 2007-08 school year.
More than 2 million Iraqis have fled to nearby countries – primarily Syria and Jordan – to escape continuing violence in their homeland. About 500,000 of them are of school age and most currently have limited or no access to education.
Many children have already missed up to three years of schooling and remedial programs and psycho-social support will be established for them and their families in hopes of reintegrating them in the school system. Training will be provided to school counselors and teachers to deal with the special needs of Iraqi children, many of whom suffered traumatic experiences.
2. Against All Odds
In “Against All Odds”, students follow a young person’s flight from oppression in his or her home country to exile in an asylum country. The game is intended to increase students’ awareness and knowledge about refugees – where they come from, what situations they have faced and how they adapt to their new lives.
Click here to play, “Against All Odds”
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Q&A: Former child soldier speaks up for those without a voice
Read excerpts of an interview with Ishmael Beah, who recently published his memoir, A Long Way Gone, about his former life as a child soldier and his journey to freedom in the United States.
Q&A with Ishmael Beah
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UNHCR videos on YouTube
You can now watch UNHCR educational videos on YouTube. There is a link on the Teacher’s Corner on our website to YouTube where your students can watch all our educational videos.
Click here to watch UNHCR videos on YouTube.
5. News to use in the classroom
Iraq: Number of Iraqi displaced tops 4.2 million; shanty towns mushroom
The situation in Iraq continues to worsen, with more than 2 million Iraqis now believed to be displaced inside the country and another 2.2 million sheltering in neighboring states. Calls for increased international support for governments in the region have so far brought few results, and access to social services for Iraqis remains limited. Most of the burden is being carried by Jordan and Syria.
Learn more about the Iraqi refugee crisis.
Pakistan: Give us schools, not supplies, urges Afghan headmistress
QUETTA, Pakistan, June 29 (UNHCR) – Jamila Abbasi runs "mini-Afghanistan" in the heart of Quetta, nurturing a generation of refugees – especially girls – from all over Afghanistan.
Learn more about the Afghan refugee crisis.
Click here to order the DVD, entitled, Return to Afghanistan, which chronicles the return of millions of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan.
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