Child protection

Report UNESCO: Education as healing: addressing the trauma of displacement through social and emotional learning

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Código del documento: ED/GEM/MRT/2019/PP/38
Recopilación: 14 pages
Idioma: inglés
También disponible en: العربية
Año de publicación: 2019

Reseña: The conditions under which migrants and refugees have to leave their homes and homelands can be traumatic in the extreme. Whether they have crossed the Mediterranean in an overcrowded and unsafe boat, been barricaded in a Syrian basement for protection from shelling, or been chased away from a burning village in Myanmar, the events of their departures and their journeys can leave scars on those affected – and none more than on children who have witnessed and experienced death, loss, violence, separation from family and prolonged insecurity. Even those fortunate enough to find a sanctuary often face further hardship or discrimination in their host communities that can exacerbate their vulnerability.

Reseña: Las condiciones bajo las cuales los migrantes y refugiados tienen que abandonar sus hogares y tierras pueden ser traumáticas en extremo. Ya sea que hayan cruzado el Mediterráneo en un bote superpoblado e inseguro, hayan sido encerrados en un sótano sirio para protegerse de los bombardeos, o hayan sido expulsados de una aldea en llamas en Myanmar, los eventos de sus partidas y sus viajes pueden dejar cicatrices en los afectados. y nada más que en niños que han presenciado y experimentado muerte, pérdida, violencia, separación de la familia e inseguridad prolongada. Incluso aquellos que tienen la suerte de encontrar un santuario a menudo enfrentan más dificultades o discriminación en su anfitrión.comunidades que pueden exacerbar su vulnerabilidad.

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Fuente: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000367812

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Malian refugees in Mauritania: education in an emergency context

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By: Monica Pinna.

 

Mauritania is the second host country for refugees fleeing Mali. Almost 55,000 people of the 135,000 who have fled Mali are now in Mauritania. Nearly 60% of those are children. As the conflict in Northern and Central Mali worsens, Aid Zone travelled to the Mbera refugee camp in Mauritania to see what is being done to educate the refugee minors there and protect them from forced marriage and child labour.

Seen from above, Mbera is a sea of tents and sand. 55,000 refugees have travelled the 60 kilometres from the border to get there. It is the only such camp for Malians in Mauritania.

Overcoming trauma

The flow of new arrivals into Mbera is constant. Two thirds of those in the camp children, meaning, after food and healthcare, education is vital.

«I’m happy because education means a lot to me. It lets me see the world differently,» explains Sadio, a Malian refugee.

Being able to attend class is crucial for students like Sadio. Otherwise girls in the camp face the prospect of being forced into marriage, while boys risk being sent off to work. On top of such dangers, many of these children have experienced considerable trauma before arriving in Mauritania.

«I was forced to marry when I was 15 years old. The marriage failed due to the fact that I had a very difficult pregnancy. After I survived that, my parents suggested I should leave for Mauritania,» Sadio says.

Now 17-years-old, Sadio is the mother of a two-year-old girl. She is at school thanks to the efforts of Rougui, a social worker with a local NGO financed by UNICEF. The project is funded by EU Humanitarian Aid.

Rougui Deme, a Social Work Assistant at the camp, said: «I asked: ‘Did you go to school?’ She told me: ‘Yes I went before’. I asked: ‘Are you married?’ She said: ‘I’m divorced’. I asked: ‘Do you want to go back to school?’ She said : ‘Yes’. I thought that a child who has a child is also a vulnerable child herself.»

5000 students in the camp are in school

Out of a total of 31,000 children in the camp, around 20,000 are of school age. There are eight primary schools for them. Such a large number of children is obviously a challenge for UNICEF and the UNHCR due to a lack of classrooms and teachers. In spite of that, over 5,000 students are receiving education.

«My parents didn’t go to school, so I will be the one who studies in order to achieve something,” one girl says.

Cheikou Wane, a Child Protection Officer working for Unicef at Mbera says: «Some children arrived in 2012. They were traumatised by what they had seen in Northern Mali. We help to re-integrate the children into school or, if they are older than school age, we place them in literacy or training centres.»

«Over 4,600 students were enrolled in primary school in the first few months of this school year. The numbers are lower in secondary school, with just over 300 enrolled. The challenge here at Mbera is to keep children in the classroom until secondary school. Last year around 50 students graduated.”

As part of efforts to educate the children in Mbera, the EU is helping to finance the building of new schools in the camp. According to EU Humanitarian Aid, providing education in emergencies is one of the best ways to invest in childrens’ long-term future.

«Education is one of the most underfunded sectors of humanitarian aid. First comes food, shelter, health, water; and education only gets 3 percent of global funding. So this is why the EU has decided to support this sector. And we have managed to increase from one to 10 percent of our humanitarian budget the share of funding that we dedicate to education,» says Isabel Coello from EU Humanitarian Aid.

Source of the review: https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/21/malian-refugees-in-mauritania-education-in-an-emergency-context

 

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Humanitarian Action for Children 2019 – Mauritania

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By: reliefweb.int. 

Total people in need: 258,978

Total children (<18) in need: 224,978

Total people to be reached: 113,323

Total children to be reached: 77,089

2019 programme targets:

Nutrition

• 26,930 children under 5 years suffering from SAM admitted for treatment

• 16,234 pregnant and lactating women reached with an integrated package of IYCF services

Health

• 2,846 children aged 6 to 59 months with common childhood diseases reached with appropriate and integrated management of childhood illness services

WASH

• 13,465 children under treatment for SAM accessing safe water for drinking, cooking and hygiene through housewater treatment

• 6,500 children accessing and using appropriate sanitation and hygiene facilities in health and nutrition centres and schools in refugee camps, host communities and villages with high SAM burdens

Child protection

• 8,500 refugee and host community children reached with psychosocial support

• 150 survivors of sexual and genderbased violence reached with gender-based violence response interventions

Education

• 17,000 school-aged boys and girls (3 to 17 years) in the refugee camp and host community affected by humanitarian situations receiving learning materials

• 4,950 out-of-school boys and girls aged 3 to 17 years accessing education

Mauritania is experiencing recurrent cycles of drought that are severely affecting the nutritional health of children. For the second year running, irregular rainfall has negatively impacted crops and pastures, eroding household resilience and capacities to absorb shocks. Over 130,000 children, including nearly 32,000 children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and 31,000 pregnant and lactating women, will require nutritional care and treatment in 2019. Twenty-three of Mauritania’s 55 districts are currently experiencing a nutrition emergency,2 and account for three quarters of the country’s total SAM caseload. Only 47 per cent of the populations of these districts have access to drinking water, compared with the national average of 64 per cent.4 Poor hygiene and sanitation practices, high levels of diarrhoea and low vaccination rates are aggravating factors. Given the protracted emergency and deteriorating security situation in the Sahel, over 57,000 Malian refugees—a 10 per cent increase from 2017—60 per cent of whom are children, require access to basic services, including safe water, health care, education and protection. Of the 29,485 school-aged refugee children (3 to 17 years) in the M’Berra refugee camp, only 8,217 (6 to 17 years) have access to learning opportunities.7 In host communities, 12,000 children are out of school.

2019-HAC-Mauritania

Source of the document: https://reliefweb.int/report/mauritania/humanitarian-action-children-2019-mauritania

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