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Carruurteenna “Our Children” Special issue on Education Carruurteenna “our children” UNICEF Somalia Newsletter April 2010 Schools should be a safe haven for children in Somalia By Rozanne Chorlton it provides a safe and healthy environ- Representative, UNICEF Somalia ment for children to learn and to keep themselves busy. Agencies such as UNI- Schools in Somalia should be protected CEF also try to ensure that they have havens of peace to ensure development clean water and adequate sanitation and to reap the future benefits of educa- among other services. tion for children. In a country where dec- ades of insecurity and the lack of govern- UNICEF is behind every child that is in ance have had a profound negative effect primary school today in Somalia. UNICEF on the lives of children and women, it is provides all school supplies, teacher crucial that the basis of a more stable and training and some teacher incentives prosperous Somalia be developed in Children at school assembly in Baidoa, among other assistance including in schools of today. Somalia © UNICEF Somalia/2008 emergency locations. In these and other initiatives, the basic goal is to provide A good education and school system is opportunities for children to learn so as to the foundation for a responsible citizenry. Most parents in Somalia like everywhere better serve their society. In a country Schools keep both teachers and children else, value the provision of education to where school enrolment is amongst the busy and have a role for communities to their children. It is this goodwill that all lowest in the world, 30.7% throughout participate in managing them and trying key players in Somalia should tap into as Somalia and 22% in Central South, it is to secure resources to run them. Addi- they ponder where to invest their re- crucial that education becomes both an tionally, schooling helps keep students sources in the country. Even in the most avenue to and the result of peace- away from antisocial activities and plays a extreme emergency situations like in the building initiatives. great role in moulding students into re- Afgooye corridor (which is home to sponsible citizens. However, even more 366,000 displaced people), UNICEF and IN THIS ISSUE vital is the need for rival combatants and its partners have - against great odds - IDPs enroll in school in Bossaso 2 bearers of arms to understand the need given a sense of normalcy to children New life for Eldibir community 2 to protect children and schools from vio- who have found themselves victims of lence and insecurity. Children have often displacement due to conflict. Expanding education 3 been caught in crossfire and efforts need UNICEF and BBC Trust unite 3 to be made to secure schools and their In these and other contexts, school is a Contact Us 4 environments as havens of peace. big stabilizing factor for children because Essential education supplies reach Somali children Until the most recent school semester, poorest neighborhoods of Hargeisa. “I every textbook at Sheikh Nur Primary want to become a doctor when I grow up School in Northwest Somalia because my mother wants me to help (Somaliland‟) was shared by at least four people. I know that I have to study hard to students. But thanks to new supplies, succeed in my dream,” she said. students can now follow their lessons in their very own textbooks. UNICEF is currently the sole provider of textbooks and school materials for pri- UNICEF, with funding from the Govern- mary schools in Somalia, and is training ment of Japan, supported over 180,000 teachers and community education com- school age children and 3,000 teachers mittees, and supporting incentives for around Somalia during the 2009-2010 teachers to help keep schools open. school year by providing them with text- UNICEF‟s goal is to help communities books and school supplies including reduce dropout rates and increase new blackboards, chalk, pens and pencils and enrolment. In some schools, there are exercise books, as well as registers, only one or two textbooks for the entire maps, and recreational supplies. school. “Strengthening our support to Members of the Japanese delegation and local leaders during the handover of sup- Sheikh Nur Primary School is one of 790 education is important to ensure that par- ents keep sending their children to plies in Hargeisa, Somaliland.© UNICEF schools that benefited from this recent Somalia/2009/Imorooka. distribution of supplies. Hodan aged 10, is school, especially those families that are struggling to meet their basic needs,” said one of the 1,700 students enrolled in the Continued on Page 2 school, which is located in one of the Safia Jibril, Education Specialist for UNI- CEF Somalia. UNICEF and Japan provide education materials to 180,000 Somali children... UNICEF ©Carruurteenna UNICEF Somalia Newsletter April 2010 Displaced children get a chance to enroll in school in Bossaso Hibo Shiine aged 12 is one of the chil- I stayed home helping my mother with dren enrolled in one of 10 UNICEF- the daily household chores. I felt hope- supported schools for internally dis- less with no expectation of ever getting placed people (IDP) reopened in Bos- back to school. Often after performing saso, Northeast Somalia (“Puntland”) in the chores, I would play with my age October 2009. The schools in IDP set- mates who were also out of school like tlements were closed in 2007 after do- me. But now, it is so wonderful for me nor funding for teacher incentives was and other children in my circumstances, exhausted. When the IDP schools were we now have a school after our old one closed, Hibo dropped out of school be- reopened in October last year. I will pur- cause her parents could not afford to sue my education upto secondary level pay fees at the community schools, nor and get into university. I want to become could they afford to buy uniforms and a teacher. We have received textbooks, books. Hibo Shiine in a classroom at Daryeel Primary exercise books, pens and pencils bought School.© UNICEF Somalia/2009 by UNICEF. We are now enjoying using Hibo‟s family lives in 100 Bush IDP books in class. UNICEF will also provide camp in Bossaso one of the 25 IDPs school uniforms shortly, we have been settlements in Bossaso town. Bossaso is the capital of Bari Re- told.” gion of Puntland State of Somalia with an estimated population of 120,000 people. It is the economic hub of Puntland State with Hibo proudly concluded, “When I get my school uniform, I will one of the busiest ports in the country, facilitating trade between look smart like any other student in the school. I like the school other parts of Somalia, Ethiopia and the Gulf States. uniform because it makes all of us look alike in school. The reopening of my school and the provision of a special package Due to relative peace and occasional job opportunities, Bos- by UNICEF is a guarantee that I will now complete primary edu- saso has become a host city for a large population of IDPs flee- cation. I am very grateful to UNICEF for this opportunity to pur- ing conflict and food insecurity in the central and southern parts sue and realize my dream. Without UNICEF‟s help, there was of Somalia and eastern Ethiopia. About 40,000 IDPs live in the no chance or hope of ever getting back to school I will forever settlements relying on casual employment, petty trade and food be grateful to UNICEF.” handouts for their livelihoods. The majority of these IDPs live in appalling, congested conditions and struggle to put food on the Hibo‟s school is one of the schools in Bossaso and four in Gal- table for their families, and consequently, sending children to kayo (another town with a large population of IDPs) receiving a school is a luxury when weighed against daily survival needs. special support package from UNICEF to benefit children from IDP settlements. The school support package comprises With the support of UNICEF, the Puntland Ministry of Education teacher incentives, temporary classrooms with water, sanitation recently reopened the IDP schools in Bossaso to provide the and hygiene facilities, education supplies, in-service teacher opportunity to resume schooling for the large number of school- training, mobilization of Community Education Committees age IDP children. The reopening followed a short survey that (CECs) and school uniforms for 3,000 learners. revealed 2,808 school-age children in the IDP settlements were out of school. In addition to this, UNICEF is providing a take home package to 150 IDP children from the most vulnerable households to ad- The reopening of the schools was a great relief. At long last dress the opportunity cost of sending children, particularly girls schooling opportunities were made available within the settle- to school. The current incentives will continue until at least the ments. Hibo was one of those children who benefited. She was end of the 2010, and measures, including the empowering of quick to enroll in Grade 2 at Daryeel Primary School in the 100 CECs and the Ministry of Education are already being put in Bush IDP camp. Now nothing is going to stand in the way of place to ensure future sustainability. Hibo realizing her life-long dream of becoming a teacher. Hibo recounts her experience after dropping out of school: “Before our „tented school‟ closed down in 2007 I loved being in school. After the school closed, life completely changed for me. Community mobilizes for education in Eldibir Supplies reach children From Page 1 The Eldibir community, in Eldibir District, South Mudug Region of Northeast Somalia („Puntland‟) is nomadic.
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