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IRC welcomes move to reopen schools for Rohingya children

Staff Correspondent
25 Sep 2021 00:00:00 | Update: 25 Sep 2021 00:49:14
IRC welcomes move to reopen schools for Rohingya children

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) welcomes the Government of Bangladesh’s announcement that learning facilities in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps can reopen for Rohingya refugee children, after over a year of closure, said a press release on Thursday. 

In 2020, the Government made a commitment to further support Rohingya children by piloting the use of the Myanmar education curriculum. The initial 10,000 Rohingya students were due to begin in 2020, but due to Covid, the initiative was postponed as lockdowns were introduced.

For Rohingya children, interruptions in their education are not new and they have experienced constraints on their access in Myanmar, and since 2017 when they arrived in Cox’s Bazar.

In response to this announcement, the IRC is preparing to reopen its 41 learning facilities, providing an education programme aimed at filling the critical education gaps felt by Rohingya children through interactive and engaging learning games that support children to learn at home, if they are unable to access the limited learning spaces available.

Ahsan Mahbub, the IRC Education Coordinator in Bangladesh, said, “This latest move by the Government of Bangladesh to re-open learning facilities is an encouraging step in the Rohingya refugee response.”

Children account for more than 51 per cent of the Rohingya refugees living in Cox’s Bazar and have been left out of education for far too long, having been denied access in Myanmar.

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