UN, NGOs accused of bungling effort to educate Rohingya children

Sub-title: 

Questions raised over efforts to give Rohingya children and youth formal education under Myanmar curriculum.

Description: 

"On May 13, a group of Rohingya refugee education leaders had the rare chance to ask some of the questions that had been weighing on their minds for more than two years. For the first time, they were meeting representatives from the United Nations and international NGOs tasked with providing education to about half a million Rohingya refugee children living in camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Minutes of the meeting obtained by Al Jazeera, show how the community leaders questioned the officials about the slow effort to give refugees formal education, the absence of a Myanmar curriculum in the camps, and the lack of consultation with the community. "Two years we have been living in the camp with no access to education, why is this?" said Khin Maung, a Rohingya youth activist who was at the meeting..."

Creator/author: 

Clare Hammond, Victoria Milko

Source/publisher: 

"Al Jazeera" (Qatar)

Date of Publication: 

2019-10-08

Date of entry: 

2019-10-09

Grouping: 

  • Individual Documents

Category: 

Countries: 

Myanmar, Bangladesh

Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar: 

Rakhine State

Language: 

English

Resource Type: 

text

Text quality: 

    • Good