Rohingya children residing in Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh are suffering terrible education conditions, with the vast majority of more than 77 percent currently not having access to any form of training, the ‘Arab News’ reported on Thursday in an article published on its official website.
The lack of resources and infrastructure in the already cramped settlement, as well as cultural and language barriers are major reasons why these children are not properly educated, the author adds.
According to Dr. Azeem Ibrahim, “the international community will need to support educational initiatives for Rohingya children in these refugee camps.”
He further notes that, “these initiatives should be designed and carried out in close consultation with the Rohingya community itself to ensure that they are culturally appropriate, relevant to the needs of the community and responsive to the challenges facing the Rohingya people.”
The article concludes with some reasons for promoting educational programs, describing education as “a fundamental human right”, “an essential tool for economic development and combating poverty”, “a means to provide social inclusion” and “a tool to ensure long-term peace in the region”.
It should be mentioned that over 700,000 Rohingya people, half of which are children, have escaped unimaginable horrors in Myanmar including, mass killings, rape and widespread human rights abuses, to find safety in Bangladesh.
