Education in Dadaab, Kenya
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The worst drought to hit east Africa in 60 years is causing a mass exodus of poor and hungry people, especially from war-torn southern Somalia. Families are walking for days – or even weeks – across the desert to reach the refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya, where they hope to find much-needed relief.
CARE is on the ground in Dadaab, helping these families – 80 percent of whom are women and children – access food, water and other emergency assistance. We’re also running education programs to help children return to school and a sense of normalcy.
However, more needs to be done. Today, only 38 percent of the children in the camps are enrolled in school and more children arrive every day hoping they too can get an education. We’re doing what we can with limited resources – even holding classes in tents or under trees so more children can attend – but we would like to build and extend classrooms, train more teachers and implement school feeding programs.
Please make a donation today to help children go to and stay in school, even during the most trying of times, and support CARE’s hunger and poverty-fighting work around the world.
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