Darfuri Refugee Camp Schools in Chad

"In Darfur it was a strategy of the government to keep us uneducated. They thought that if we were educated we would make more demands on them and they didnt like that idea. That is why we say, they fight us with education. Someone who is not educated is like a blind man. How can a blind man show you the way?"

"To go back we need peace. We dont want a conflict between us. But if you want to find a solution, if you want to do anything at all, you need to be educated." Yahya Mahamat Oumar, Treguine camp

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CORD is a UK based international agency for peace providing education for 35,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur as an implementing partner for UNHCR.

CORD Programme Manager for Education Anne Goddard shows how schools in Treguine and Bredjing camps in Eastern Chad are used from dawn to dusk for a variety of classes from preschool to adult literacy and English learning.

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• darfur
• chad
• refugee
• schools
• cord
• education
• sudan
• sudanese
• literacy
• ngo
• unhcr