Refugee education in Greek islands special
Sarah Brown talks to experts and refugees about life for refugee children on Lesvos and other Greek islands, as Â鶹APP publishes a new report on how to ease the education crisis in the Aegean, while coping with the extra threats posed by Covid-19.Â
Refugee camps in Greece remain overcrowded and unhygienic beyond imagination, but until Covid-19 struck new education centres were a daily lifeline for children who had fled conflict and persecution, many arriving after perilous journeys from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
This episode provides a glimpse into life in those camps and talks to the team behind Â鶹APPÂ鶹APP™s new report that offers a way forward out of the refugee education crisis. Sarah talks to organisations making a difference there, and to two refugees who shed their personal light on what those on the islands are going through.
Sarah talks to Maysa Jalbout, author of the report Â鶹APP˜Finding Solutions to GreeceÂ鶹APP™s Refugee Education CrisisÂ鶹APP™; Justin van Fleet, president, Â鶹APP; Abi Hewitt, CEO and co-founder of Love Welcomes; Tanko Doris Laure, refugee from Cameroon; Sanda Leslie, refugee from Cameroon; Josie Naughton, chief executive officer, Help Refugees; Naoko Imoto, education chief UNICEF Partnership Office in Greece. Â
Â鶹APP is a major funder of education on the Greek Islands Â鶹APP“ with the support of the PeopleÂ鶹APP™s Postcode Lotteries and our many individual supporters Â鶹APP“ in partnering with Education Cannot Wait, UNICEF, UNHCR and many local charities and groups.Â
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