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Strong Grassroots Support for Rebuilding Education in Conflict Countries

Educating their children is important to most parents, including families uprooted by conflict.UNESCO’s latest Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report quotes a woman who fled Sudan’s Darfur region to neighboring Chad: “We had to leave behind all of our possessions. The only thing we could bring with us,” she said, “is what we have in our heads, what we have been taught…Education is the only thing that cannot be taken from us.”Grassroots innovationsWith that in mind, several conflict-stricken communities in Africa have taken action. They’ve started schools that today serve to up to 60,000 students in the African bush. Some improvise with boards nailed to trees and recent graduates acting as teachers.In Afghanistan, communities have created schools in camps and abandoned buildings. A drawing done in 2006 by a boy who had fled fighting between the Lords Resistance Army and government forces in northern Uganda. (Courtesy of Nickson Okwir and A River Blue.) Pauline Rose is the director of the yearly report.Bush schools, she explained, move around when [people] are displaced. So, [the schools] pick up whatever they have and move to hide in the bush, so it is a very flexible situation.[In Afghanistan] some of the community schools started as girls’ schools that were literally in people’s houses: some women would set them up with girls in the community – they would obviously need to hide away from the Taliban at that time. Then, as they became more widespread, they became more established and started to get external support. Now they have become part of the formal education system.RebuildingThere are other signs of progress. In Nepal, NGOs mediated between armed groups and the government to establish “zones of peace” to ensure the neutrality of school buildings and end the recruitment of children. Walking to school in Beitlahia, northern Gaza strip (photo: UNICEF) UNICEF has created and distributed packages of teaching materials called “schools