Refugee Students Faced By Challenges

by Harir Mohamoud

Students and staff from Mohomou Refugee School and other such schools in N'zerekore township, as well as students in the camp, express their gratitude to RESPECT International for connecting them to students from overseas.

These refugee students have long wanted to communicate with students from other countries, and now RESPECT has made this possible.

However, whilst students in these township schools and their surrounding camps are grateful for having contact with the outside world, they have many important challenges facing them: there is a shortage or computers and typewriters among other things. Even though they have opened a computer centre, there is only one computer and one typewriter.

Today, there is a need for students across the world to be able to access technical and modern communication skills, but that is only a dream for students in these refugee schools.

For example, in one school, out of some two thousand students, only two hundred can attend the course due to lack of equipment, thus hampering their practical training.

RESPECT International's assistance is greatly needed in sending girls back to school, who have had to drop out because of personal issues, such as pregnancies, and being separated from their parents due to war.