Rohingya crisis: door de ogen van een vluchtelingekinder (Engels)

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Myshara is a group leader for an innovative peer-to-peer psychosocial mental health programme run by UNHCR, in which the children aged 6 to 16 run their own workshops based on a UNHCR-conceived psycho-social programme. She also attends sessions at the learning centre which, like all other schooling available to refugee children in Kutupalong, offers only an informal education rather than a formal curriculum. She feels limited in her ability to learn as much as she can and wants to in order to meet her goals of becoming a teacher one day. More than half of the 540,000 Rohingya refugee children under the age of 12 have no access to education at all, while only a handful of teenagers are going to school. Kutupalong, with some 730,000 people living in cramped quarters in 16 different “camp” areas, is the world’s largest refugee settlement. Grandi spent time with Myshara, visiting the mental health peer group, her home and classroom. He was in Kutupalong as part of a joint visit with Mark Lowcock, the UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and António Vitorino, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), that also took in diplomatic meetings with Bangladeshi officials in Dhaka. During the visit, he noted that a joint UN appeal for 2019 on behalf of humanitarian efforts for Rohingya refugees was only 16-percent funded thus far. The UN is seeking 920 $US million for its programmes, which include but are not limited to food assistance, health and mental health care, shelter and infrastructure, education and protection and legal services.

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Published to Youtube on: 20/05/2019

Archived on: 11/08/2025

Original URL (may no longer be available): https://youtube.com/watch?v=7IbAzbax1gM