Giving refugees access to higher education

Bild: 141-Angelika Mendes_Giving refugees access to higher education.jpeg Titel: Giving refugees access to higher education Schlagworte: Global Media Forum 2012, KLICK! 2012, Klick141 Fotograf: Angelika Mendes, Germany Aufnahmeort: Turkana District, Kenya Beschreibung:Hayat from Somalia is one of the few refugee students who can now go to university in the remote and resource-poor Kakuma refugee camp. Since a new distance-learning project is offering refugees the possibility to go to university in the most remote und rugged areas, Hayat has reason to hope. Having fled Somalia in 1998, she has since been forced to live in Kakuma refugee camp in the dry and semi-arid northwest of Kenya. Here, education ends after secondary school and there is no electricity or internet. Now she is one of the students, proudly holding her new student ID from Regis University in the US, one of the Jesuit partner universities. Very few refugees have access to higher education and many of them spend more than 15 years outside their countries of origin. The courses aim to empower them to find their own solutions and to become less dependent. Bildrechte: Verwertungsrechte im Kontext des Global Media Forums eingeräumt.
Image: Angelika Mendes

Hayat from Somalia is one of the few refugee students who can now go to university in the remote and resource-poor Kakuma refugee camp.

Since a new distance-learning project is offering refugees the possibility to go to university in the most remote und rugged areas, Hayat has reason to hope. Having fled Somalia in 1998, she has since been forced to live in the Kakuma refugee camp in the dry and semi-arid northwest of Kenya. Here, education ends after secondary school and there is no electricity or Internet. Now she is one of the students, proudly holding her new student ID from Regis University in the US, one of the Jesuit partner universities. Very few refugees have access to higher education and many of them spend more than 15 years outside their countries of origin. The courses aim to empower them to find their own solutions and to become less dependent.

Scene`s location: Turkana District, Kenya. Photo byAngelika Mendes, Germany