Education is vital for helping children develop healthily to become productive members of society. However, refugee children are 5 times less likely to attend school than their counterparts. Furthermore, they are likely to have experienced trauma and require further psycho-social support. Without intervention refugee children, such as those at the Kyaka II refugee settlement, are set to continue living a life of poverty, with a potential future of drugs, criminal activity, and prostitution.
Through its Special Education for most vulnerable refugee children-SEMVRC Project, On Friday February 10th, 2023, LHI in Partnership with EDEN CITY School of Christian life and RESDA, distributed scholastic materials to 63 vulnerable refugee children at Itambabiniga Primary School, Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Uganda.
Let’s Help International (LHI) has created this program in 2021 in order to aid such children. This program provides children at the Kyaka II refugee settlement with the financial, material and psycho-social support they need to not only attend school, but to finish at least until the end of the primary level. By receiving an education, these children have a brighter future, with the possibility to fulfill their dreams of becoming educated professionals, such as doctors or teachers, and further benefiting their community.
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“We have a collective responsibility to ensure education plans take into account the needs of some of the most vulnerable children and youth in the world –refugees, internally displaced children, stateless children and children whose right to education has been compromised by war and insecurity. These children are the keys to a secure and sustainable future, and their education matters for
us all.”António Guterres, UNHCR
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