child refugees

Without school, a ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya refugee children face uncertain future

By Rubayat Jesmin — July 25, 2019
(The Conversation) — The boy’s eyes lit up when he talked about his dream of becoming a doctor. Seven-year-old “Mohammad” – not his real name – is a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar. I met him at a learning center at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in early July 2019. After sharing his aspirations, […]

By taking in migrant children, Jewish camps are putting religion into action (COMMENTARY)

By Jeffrey Salkin — January 5, 2016
(RNS) We should be cheering these Jewish leaders who are walking the walk and talking the talk, the biblical walk and talk, that is.

‘I wish I could also have died’: Boko Haram haunts kids

By Tonny Onyulo — March 11, 2015
BAGA SOLA, Chad (RNS) Children make up about half of the Nigerians coming to the crowded Baga Sola refugee camp. Many are orphans sinking into despair, traumatized from the horrors they've witnessed and facing an uncertain future.
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