The United Nations has lauded Chad and Uganda for promoting the integration of refugees by educating them in national schools.
Uganda, which hosts the largest number of refugees in Africa at 1.4 million, brought humanitarian and development agencies together this year to create mixed schools for refugees and host communities.
Also, Chad which hosts some 450,000 refugees, has developed a temporary education plan for refugees while it adapts the national system to include them, a first in Africa, UNESCO said.
In 2017, a report by U.N.’s cultural agency, UNESCO revealed that about 4 million child refugees were out of school, losing their right to education.
Manos Antoninis, director of UNESCO’s annual Global Education Monitoring Report noted that the government has sent Chadian teachers to refugee camps to ease the transition, and this year converted 108 refugee schools into regular public schools that will also benefit locals.
It has also trained teachers from among the refugee population to be able to teach in Chadian schools, Antoninis added.
According to the U.N. refugee agency, persecution and other violence drove a record 68.5 million people from their homes in 2017, the majority uprooted inside their own countries while 25 million are refugees.
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