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VOICES FROM THE FIELDTHE IRC BLOG
Why School Is So Important -- Even in a Crisis
Darfur, Sudan Photo: Gerald Martone/The IRC |
| Gerald Martone, the IRC's director of humanitarian affairs, shared his latest article with me the other day.He points out in the piece that education for children often takes a back seat in humanitarian emergencies, when relief organizations tend to focus on providing food, water and shelter--the bare minimum of physical survival. But many of these refugee crises are more often not life or death situations, he says, and argues that devoting resources to education isn't diverting them from life-saving work. Instead, educating children in emergencies gives them a lifeline out of an otherwise hopeless and purposeless existence in refugee limbo. "It's not uncommon to find a generation of children raised without any access to education among the world’s refugee 'warehouses'" Gerry says. "We must shift our obsession from how people are dying to how people are living." Article: Educating Children in Emergency Settings - Gerald Martone [PDF] |
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What a beautiful sight seeing
Submitted by Dana Wood (not verified) on March 19, 2008 - 12:03pm.
What a beautiful sight seeing children who want to learn in a country with so much strife. These children want to learn and fight to have education, kids here in the United States takes education for granted and think they do not need to be educated. How wonderful that we do not have to fight to go to school and is given to us freely but sad that kids drop out here.
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