Education Cannot Wait’s funding has helped provide education to 140,000 pre-primary, primary and secondary refugee school children 38 percent of whom are girls in the Gambella and Benishangul Gumuz regions.
South Sudanese girls in grade two learning at Tierkidi School No. 3, Refugee Camp, Itang Woreda, Gambella Region. Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia/2018/Mersha
May 4 2021 (IPS) - Eighteen-year-old Chuol Nyakoach lives in the Nguenyyiel Refugee Camp in Gambella, Ethiopia. Chuol is grateful that despite the trauma she has already experienced in her young life, she is able to continue her education in the refugee camp. Learning has given her a reason to wake up every day.