Thousands of displaced children in Sudan’s Blue Nile region are facing growing deprivation of their right to education, as students struggle with the start of the new school year amid a severe shortage of schools and limited available resources.
Displaced man Adam described his ordeal, saying he spent an entire year unable to enroll his children in school, meaning another year of their childhood has passed away from the classroom. The denial of education has now been added to the long list of rights stripped from them by their painful displacement journey.
In one camp hosting more than 20,000 displaced people, around 4,000 children remain outside the education system, according to camp committee statistics. There is no school to receive them and no desks behind which they can sit and await the start of another school year.
Some volunteers are trying to provide the children with whatever knowledge they can, teaching them under the shade of trees.
One female volunteer said she teaches the children under the trees without a blackboard, chalk, or notebooks, adding that the educational process lacks all basic school supplies.
