{"id":95492,"date":"2019-02-04T16:56:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.intersos.org\/from-the-quarry-to-the-classroom-education-cannot-wait-intersos-in-somalia\/"},"modified":"2019-02-04T16:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:56:25","slug":"from-the-quarry-to-the-classroom-education-cannot-wait-intersos-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceful-shtern.46-37-26-27.plesk.page\/en\/from-the-quarry-to-the-classroom-education-cannot-wait-intersos-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"From the quarry to the classroom – Education Cannot Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Somalia, Education Cannot Wait* and INTERSOS look toward safe drinking water and school meals to get children back in school.<\/p>\n

Nadifa Ibrahim picks up her hammer and strikes down on the chalk white stones at the quarry where she works with her family and other children displaced by Somalia\u2019s years of civil war, drought and poverty. This seemingly un-ending crisis has displaced 1 million school-aged children and left an estimated 3.4 million girls and boys out of school.
\nNadifa\u2019s 12-year-old hands are hardly big enough to hold the hammer \u2013 and she makes less per day than the bigger boys and adults who are able to smash bigger stones \u2013 but in order to survive and support the family she needs to work.
\nNadifa isn\u2019t alone. Most of Somalia\u2019s internally displaced children are out of school because they need to work to feed themselves and their families, or they need to spend a big chunk of their days fetching water or simply scavenging for food.
\nTo make things even more complicated, these children living far from their homes face ever-increasing risks of child marriage, sexual assault and recruitment into armed groups.
\nThese destabilizing forces are like a ticking time bomb that threatens the future of an entire generation.
\nOver the last year, violence and instability fueled a sharp increase in the number of displaced people in Baidoa District, where the majority of Somalia\u2019s displacement camps are found. In the Diinsor District \u2013 largely controlled by the extremist group Al Shabaab \u2013 the situation is even more dire. There are no secondary schools and only two primary schools available to educate and protect the growing influx of displaced children. Food and safe drinking water are hard to come by, and 1.5 million people face acute food insecurity.
\nGetting children like Nadifa out of the quarry and back in school requires a unique approach that looks not just at access to education, but also at the intersections of conflict, crises, poverty and hunger, and the root causes that force children into the quarries, into armed groups and out of school.
\nTo reach these children, Education Cannot Wait<\/a> partnered with Intersos in a fast-acting 12-month first emergency educational response programme designed to expand access to quality education services for the children of the Baidoa and Diinsor Districts and enhance community coping mechanisms and resilience to crisis.
\nThe project came to a close in August 2018, increasing school enrollment by 13 per cent for boys and 17 per cent for girls, and reaching 4787 children in all, 41% of whom were girls. In Somalia, fewer than 50 per cent of girls attend primary school, and the last countrywide survey from 2006 showed that only 25 per cent of women aged 15 to 24 were literate.
\nNow there\u2019s a chance to reverse this cycle, and Nadifa, and other children like her, are back in school, and no longer need to work in the quarry.
\nMohamed Nur is an 11-year-old boy that worked in the quarry. His hands are blistered and aged from his time blasting rocks apart with a hammer. With support from the investment, Mohamed is back in school and has a brighter outlook on life.
\n\u201cAt least the pen is softer than the hammer,\u201d the affable boy jokes. \u201cI never ever want to go back to the quarry again, I felt bad seeing other children go to school, but there was nothing I could do.\u201d
\nUnlike many schools in Somalia, the schools for displaced children supported by Education Cannot Wait are free. Through the investment, the children also receive a warm, healthy meal each day \u2013 sometimes the only food they will get. The delivery of food is managed by the headmasters, to ensure food doesn\u2019t go missing, and to provide an incentive to keep children in school.
\nThe investment also set up innovative water and hygiene programmes that support healthier children and easier access to safe drinking water. Safe drinking water is being delivered in 13 schools through the investment. Project personnel indicate that three months after the project close, the water trucks, donkey carts, and permanent connections to water systems are still working. Hand-washing stations and girls-only latrines were also developed.
\n\u201cEducating girls is educating a nation\u201d said Isaq Abdi Hussein, head teacher at the Warsan school for displaced children. \u201cMany girls and boys were unable to attend school, due to poverty, but with the introduction of school feeding, the school enrolment has significantly improved.\u201d
\nTo deal with the scars of displacement and early childhood trauma, the children have access to improved psycho-social support from teachers that have received advance training through the programme and also receive a US$100 monthly stipend.
\n\u201cThese schools have saved the lives of many children. Their future was uncertain, and this is how they become vulnerable to abuse and bad elements in the community who enlist them in armed conflict. But now they are settled in school and this is also good for us as a community,\u201d said Ibrahim Adan Ali, head teacher at the Al-Amin school.
\nTo entice families to send their children to school, the investment created a \u201cback to school\u201d campaign that included community forums, home visits and sensitization on the value of education, especially for girls and children with special needs. Learning materials and books were also distributed, along with the introduction of other recreational activities designed to make learning fun and engaging.
\nEducation stakeholders in Somalia are currently developing a multi-year resilience programme funding proposal for Education Cannot Wait. This programme will build on the success of this first emergency response and other Education Cannot Wait-funded investment and ensure that gains made so far are not lost.
\nNadifa dreams of taking her new chance at an education and paying it forward.
\n\u201cI would like to be a teacher so that I educate as many girls as possible. I have also told my friends in the quarry to come to school as there is everything we need to learn,\u201d said Nadifa.<\/p>\n

*this article was originally posted on Education Cannot Wait website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Education Cannot Wait is the first global multilateral fund dedicated to supporting education for girls and boys in countries affected by wars, disasters and crises. It was launched at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 by a coalition of international aid agencies and public and private donors to usher in faster and more sustainable education responses in crisis settings. Education Cannot Wait is hosted by UNICEF. The Fund is administered under UNICEF\u2019s financial, human resources and administrative rules and regulations, while operations are run by the Fund\u2019s own independent governance structure. <\/span>Education Cannot Wait At A Glance<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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