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Israel|Palestina | 01. jul 2020

AIDA: – Israel må stanse annekteringen av Palestina

Nylig ble det kjent at Israel utsetter planene om annektering av flere okkuperte palestinske områder. Dette er ikke godt nok, mener medlemsorganisasjonen AIDA.

Global | 18. jun 2020

80 millioner mennesker på flukt reflekterer svakt globalt lederskap

Nærmere 80 millioner mennesker er på flukt fra vold og krig viser ny oversikt. – En knusende dom over elendige, uansvarlige og nasjonalistiske lederskap i store deler av verden, sier Jan Egeland, generalsekretær i Flyktninghjelpen.

Global | 09. jun 2020

Ni av verdens ti mest neglisjerte kriser er i Afrika

Kamerun, DR Kongo og Burkina Faso er verdens mest neglisjerte flyktningkriser. Det viser Flyktninghjelpens ferske liste over krisene som verden har valgt å overse.

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Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) have been working around the clock to ensure that refugees and displaced children and youth can exercise their right to quality, relevant education.
Mohammad, 13, is one of these children. He is originally from Hama in Syria but fled to Lebanon together with his family six years ago. Now he lives with his parents, three sisters and three brothers in a small apartment outside Tripoli, North Lebanon.
“Although it has been six years since we arrived here, I still wish we can go back every single day. We could play football as much as we wanted in front of our home and we had a huge yard where no one bothered us,” says Mohammad. “In Lebanon we can never finish a football game, the neighbours always get annoyed and ask us to go back home. Now the situation is worse, we can’t do anything.”
Refugee children are bearing the blunt
When the activities stopped due to the Covid-19 outbreak Mohammad and his brothers were very upset. Going to the NRC learning centre, meeting their friends, and learning was part of their daily routines. “It’s not easy to stay at home, I feel down but there is nothing we can do,” says Mohammad with hesitation.
The Corona crisis has led to closed schools and disrupted the education to more than 1.5 billion learners. Refugees and displaced children and youth are bearing the blunt. Children and young people in displacement have often missed out on years of education already, due to war and conflict, and without any help, school closures due to Covid-19 will make them fall behind even further.
“To meet the needs of Mohammad and 1,200 other children enrolled at NRC learning centres in Lebanon we are now implementing remote learning modalities, including via communication platforms such as WhatsApp, combined with follow-up phone calls to provide guidance and support and to safely refer people to other specialised organisations,” says Rayan El Baf, one of NRC’s child protection technical officers in North Lebanon.
Due to the lockdown and fear of spreading the virus our colleagues are not able to visits the children and their parents. It is Mohammad’s mother, Fatima, that has sent us the photos, and it is our colleagues in Lebanon that have interviewed Mohammed and his mother.
“The remote learning has benefited my children a lot. Instead of leaving them behind during this period, NRC’s remote learning methods show us that NRC continues to care about the education of our children and appreciate their efforts to learn. It helps them connect with their inner selves, it gives them courage and strength to know their own worth,” says Fatima, Mohammad’s mother.
Nationwide lockdown

On the 15th of March, Lebanon declared a state of general mobilization in an attempt to control the spread of the coronavirus. With the nationwide lockdown, the basic survival and protection of the most vulnerable communities in Lebanon has become a critical issue. However, despite the challenges and to minimize the risk of exposure to beneficiaries and its frontline staff, NRC Lebanon continues its essential service delivery by only implementing critical lifesaving activities on-site and has tailored other programme interventions through different modalities to specifically support the national Covid-19 response.

Stay and deliver
“Although our learning centres were closed due to the Covid-19 situation, we never stopped delivering educational messages to the children,” says Rayan El Baf. “We regularly contacted them and their parents over the phone to check on their wellbeing, raise awareness on the situation and share learning materials,” she says.
Since the coronavirus lockdown, Mohammad spends most of his time at home. He either focuses on the NRC learning materials, revises the lessons, or plays with his siblings. He also sometimes helps his father at work, who sells coffee for a living.

Caring teachers

“My teacher Rouwayda always supports us to solve the exercise when we need help. She is caring and fair. Our teachers make us feel at ease and insist that we understand the lessons before leaving the classroom,” says Mohammad.

Mohammad’s mother is grateful for the support NRC gives her children. “They are always so happy when talking to the staff and are able to express themselves easily.”

“The remote teaching allows my children to revise and remember the information they received in the classes and bring some variety to the daily routine during the coronavirus lockdown. This is not only helping them to learn but also to feel more positive about the situation,” Fatima says. “The remote learning and support given over the regular calls also helps me to communicate better with my children”, she concludes.

New ways and solutions

“Though adopting remote learning modalities, we have been able to develop a positive bond between us and the parents are becoming more involved in their children’s education. Luckily, we have not faced any difficult issues with the remote learning, and we are always trying to find new ways and solutions to deal with any challenges that might arise. However, the hardest challenge is perhaps that we cannot answer the children when they ask us when they can come back to our centres to see us and their friends,” Rayan concludes.

“The learning centre was a place where I felt safe. I miss both my friends and the teachers. But most of all I would like to return to Syria,” Mohammad says.
Photo: Private

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“Nothing is better than seeing my city clean.” Hisham Abdullah has been a cleaner for more than ten years, in his home city of Mocha. “I work every day from early in the morning until noon,” he says.

He is grateful for his job with the local council, which is the only source of income for his family of seven. But it is not an easy job, as there is a lot of physical effort needed to sweep the streets and heft heavy rubbish bags. And at times it is made harder by the attitudes of Hisham’s fellow residents.

“Sometimes we can face insulting remarks from people,” he admits.
Perhaps for this reason, Hisham has always appreciated those who have been supportive of his work, helping to clean outside their houses and shops. “When the community joins us in a cleaning campaign,” he explains, “it encourages us to work harder.”

But recently, Hisham has been aware of a shift in attitudes. Because on 10 April 2020, Yemen confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus: Covid-19.

Before the conflict, Mocha was a small coastal city, known for its fishing—and also long ago as a major coffee port, after which the café mocha is named. But in the last three years it has become a destination for thousands of displaced families seeking safety from the conflict. This influx of people has meant an increased need for cleaning teams like Hisham’s.

“We clean all camps in the city and around it,” Hisham explains. “The displaced people appreciate our work, to be honest. Most of them collect their rubbish in plastic bags and put them in the in front of their tents.”

Not everyone was so supportive. But since Covid-19 has hit Yemen, people are taking cleaning more seriously. Even those who had previously been uncooperative now see hygiene as a priority.

“Everyone started to respect us and help us in cleaning their neighbourhoods,” Hisham says.

In the wake of the first confirmed case, Hisham’s team is one of many being supported by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) to step up their efforts to keep local markets and camps clean. This is part of a range of new measures NRC has rolled out to help combat the virus.

“Cleaning is not a new thing for us, we have been doing it for years,” Hisham says. “But the NRC training showed us how to work safely so we won’t be affected by the coronavirus or help spread it.”

Hisham was particularly glad of the protective equipment that came with the training. “NRC provided us with gloves, face masks and cleaning tools.”

“The happiest day for me,” Hisham says, “is when I see that Mocha is clean, and people are helpful and aware about the importance of cleaning.”

Photo: Zaid Al-Haimi/NRC

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