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July 2014 back issue
by Jonathan Hyams
Millions of children are affected by conflict every year. Nearly 50 million primary and lower secondary age children who
live in conflict-affected countries are not in school. Yet education is crucial for both the protection and the development
of these children affected by war. It brings communities together and helps them solve problems in non-violent ways. It
facilitates children’s chances of recovery after destructive events, and contributes to stability and economic progress.
But perhaps most importantly, education gives children hope for the future.
Save the Children's joint project with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) to help 14,000 children affected by
conflict in Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was one of four projects chosen to receive EU
Children of Peace funding in 2013 (a combination of funds from the EU’s 2012 Nobel Peace Prize award, and from
ECHO, the EU's humanitarian agency).The project ran from February 2013 to May 2014 and was dedicated to
educating children in emergencies by setting up temporary schools and learning spaces in North Kivu, DRC and Dollo
Ado, Ethiopia, training teachers and supplying textbooks, notepads and stationary.
While visiting the project in DRC earlier this year, Save the Children’s Emergency Response Producer and
photographer Jonathan Hyams was introduced to 8 year-old Dieme, who had been displaced by the conflict to
Uganda, but who made the dangerous crossing back over the border every day to go to school. Jonathan followed him
on this journey, humbled by the risks he took every day to receive an education, and the wisdom and resilience of a
child whose life had been turned upside-down by conflict. Save the Children released the following multimedia
slideshow for World Refugee Day 2014.
To donate to the life-saving and life-changing work that Save the Children do around the world to help children like
Dieme, click here View the video here
"It is better to die trying to get an education than staying at home without a good future." - Dieme, 8 years old, DRC.
