Amani school for Refugees-INVER Empowering refugees
Giving displaced children a quality education
Event Overview:
- Prize Category: Overcoming Adversity
- Format: Panel discussion
- Country: Kenya
- Languages: Streamed live in English with automated captions in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and other languages to be confirmed later.
- Learn more about the Top Ten Shortlisted Schools in the Overcoming Adversity category on the World’s Best School Prizes website.
Amani School for Refugees, a charity-based teacher training college and primary school in Kakuma, Kenya is run by a group of volunteers who were themselves refugees. The initiative was the result of a community effort to give children in the Kakuma refugee camp the education their teachers received.
Aiming to be something of a haven for refugee children who have endured considerable emotional and mental trauma, the school provides lessons in numeracy and equips illiterate students with the tools to read and write fluently.
Initiated by INVER Empowering Refugees, an organisation that works to nurture the resilience and wellbeing of refugees, the school has been in operation for over four years. At first, classes would begin in homes and eventually lessons were held in the two classrooms that INVER Empowering Refugees built to accommodate the needs of the staff and students. The organisation helps keep the school running through small donations that are used to buy course materials.
The school has 80 children from multiple nationalities who are currently attending remedial classes and they are also connected with international teachers to equip them with knowledge and skills centred on the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help them become global citizens.
Join us for an enlightening session on resilience education.
Speakers
Moderator: Amin Bolis
Amin is the the Executive Director of INVER empowering which is a refugee-led organization which funds and support the daily run of Amani school for Refugees here in Kakuma Refugee Camp
Speaker 1: Almarat Arnu
Almarat Arnu is the co-founder and operations Manager of INVER empowering Refugees organization, which is the organization that funds the operations of Amani Schools for Refugees