Love Learning: Teaching in a refugee camp school
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 10:55 am
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But it's more than just the conditions in the schools, read the words - children without parents living in refugee conditions.
And in Nigeria, there are parents without their daughters - because their daughters were stolen from their school.
Man's inhumanity to man - to children.
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These descriptions always make me think of how much we, and some of our children, take for granted in well-resourced schools.Your teaching is constantly interrupted by smaller children peeping through the door. Grey from dust, clothes in rags, hundreds of children roam the playground. Some are tiny – too young to attend school. But their only carers are older siblings and so they come in at 7am and stand in the hot dust all day waiting for their brother or sister to finish. Some cram into Grade 1 classes and even though they swell class sizes to 200, they join in. When lower primary finishes at 12 there are even more children roaming the school site, because many of the children would rather stand in the dirt than go home. Some have no parents and the adults they live with are strangers to them. And there is little to return to – tents are stifling in the heat. The other teachers understand this. They let them stay – no one is turned away.
But it's more than just the conditions in the schools, read the words - children without parents living in refugee conditions.
And in Nigeria, there are parents without their daughters - because their daughters were stolen from their school.
Man's inhumanity to man - to children.