UNICEF Sets Up Temporary Learning Space for Displaced Children

UNICEF have been working on providing temporary learning spaces for displaced children in Bangui, the Central African Republic. The organisation reports that almost two thirds of all schools in the Central African Republic remain closed because of ongoing conflict in the country, but UNICEF and partners have built 144 temporary learning spaces that are serving nearly 23,600 displaced children across the country.

This video focuses on Nicolette, she now attends a temporary learning space set up by UNICEF at the Boy Rabe Monastery in Bangui. UNICEF provides the following context noting that:

“Serengino Nicolette Divine, 13, vividly remembers the day the Seleka rebel group returned to her hometown. "When I went back to the house,” she recalls, "Selekas were there killing people, massacring and looting. This is why my father said we can’t stay in our neighborhood … he told my mother that I couldn’t go back to school. My mother said that a school was starting at the monastery. That is why I am here, so that I can study.” Credit: YouTube\UNICEF