At least 25 national and international rights bodies and civil society organisations, including Burma Campaign UK, have made an urgent call for the government to support the community-led learning facilities in Cox’s Bazar’s Rohingya refugee camps, reports Bangladesh’s Daily Star.
About 30 community-led schools have been shut down or dismantled by the authorities since December 2021, on the grounds that they don’t maintain the standards of education and hamper the activities of authorised schools.
The statement said the existing learning centres authorised by the government and operated by UNICEF and other humanitarian partners leave out the older (14+) age groups. And there are nearly half a million Rohingya children in Bangladesh who are deprived of education in an accredited curriculum since their refuge in August 2017.