Daily Monitor
Monday March 08 2021
Pupils attend a lesson in a refugee camp. With the pandemic schools were closed down leaving such pupils stranded. Photo | Promise Twinamukye
Summary
The pandemic and consequent closure of schools took away the semblance of normalcy refugee children had become used to in their communities.
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Although the Covid-19 pandemic affected many in different ways, those in refugee settlements were hit the worst since they were already living in difficult conditions.
According to the Covid-19 bi-monthly update by UNHCR of July 2020, an analysis on the impact of the pandemic on refugee education was undertaken by The Education in Emergencies Sector Working Group, co-chaired by the Ministry of Education and Sports, UNHCR and Finn Church Aid, primary and secondary school going children had missed 60 per cent of the 840 hours of education for term one since March.