UNICEF reports on how the Syrian crisis has resulted in millions of children being unable to continue their education, but a small and cheap piece of technology might be able to change that.
UNICEF innovation specialist, James Cranwell-Ward, has been able to develop a cheap small computer using a credit-card sized hard-drive called 'Rasberry Pi', and a tablet screen, all tied together with a platform developed by an e-learning start-up.
Zeinab, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon, who has attended the Rasberry Pi classes is already learning to code, basic numeracy, science and has also developed her own game using the patforms coding language.
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More than 5.5 million people have fled the war-torn Syria since the beginning of the 2011-armed conflict. According to the statistics, around 3.5 million of the Syrian refugees - half of them children - now live in the neighboring Turkey.
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A series of songs are available for social workers who work with Syrian children small and older : these songs are well known to these children and would enjoy hearing them.
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UNICEF - together with UNICEF Ambassador, the Bosnian footballer Edin Džeko- have produced a short video to promote pre-school education for children. The video is in Bosnian with English subtitles.
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The Irish Times is reporting on a new initiative which will see refugee children attending photography classes, and take pictures of what they see and experience, allowing the rest of us to see the world through a refugee child's eyes. The classes…
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The VICE article on children trapped in Spanish enclaves paints a powerful picture of the experience of one of the most vulnerable groups: unaccompanied refugee and migrant children.
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Validated measures are needed for assessing resilience in conflict settings. An Arabic version of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM) was developed and tested in Jordan. Following qualitative work, surveys were implemented…
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Daily Sabah is reporting about the project led by Turkish children and their parents, aiming to provide protection to Syrian refugees during winter by knitting scarves and barrettes. According to the Daily Sabah, as part of the "Cozy Kindness…
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UNHCR together with the funding from the EU has been running KEDU, an informal school on Kos, Greece for children refugees living there. Xenia Passa, a protection officer with UNHCR explained “it is important for refugee children to find normalcy in…
