With new classrooms and innovative approaches to teaching, the IRC is improving education for children growing up in Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania.
By Katelin Wilton
Most of the school-age children in Nyarugusu refugee camp in northwestern Tanzania were born here. In the 1990s, their parents had fled violence in neighboring Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo; some never returned home. Over 70,000 are still in need of international protection. The youngest know no other life, and they have little chance of learning about the world beyond Nyarugusu, or even acquiring basic language and math skills.