“I just want to go back to school”: adolescent refugees and education

Think Change · Oct 25, 2021 · 33m

The UN blueprint, the Global Compact for Refugees, has education as one of its top priorities. But despite this, many adolescents are excluded from schools and denied a proper education when they are forced to flee. In episode two, we focus on this crisis of education, and compare the plight of young refugees who have settled in Bangladesh and Jordan.We speak to Yasin*, a 14 year old refugee who currently lives in a two-room tent with seven members of his family in Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh. After his home was burnt down in Myanmar, his family moved to a refugee camp and now he has no access…