©UNHCR/Assadullah Nasrullah children and education 1 2
3 4 5
6 Half of the world’s out-of-school children
live in, or are from, conflict zones—that’s 29 million young minds not accessing education and at risk of an uncertain future.
Refugee girls are being let down the most–the global average is just three years of education, resulting in low literacy, which increases their isolation and vulnerability and places them at higher risk of abuses, from violence to child marriage. But access to quality education does make a difference. When girls receive just seven years of schooling, they marry four years later and have 2.2 fewer children.1
For communities and nations ravaged by
conflict, educated girls and boys are essential to helping their country to rebuild in the future. We know that if a country can get 10 per cent more girls into school that country’s GDP increases by an average of three per cent.2
Educated refugees are more able to support themselves and their
families–in general, a
child born to a mother who can read is 50 per cent more likely to survive past age five.3
By educating refugee children, we can help them grow into adults better equipped to find their own solutions during and beyond displacement. UNHCR’s research shows that educated Afghan refugees are three times more likely to successfully repatriate home.4
Finally, at UNHCR we believe all children should be given the opportunity to reach their potential with education. We know that when refugee children access quality education they have shown themselves to be committed, bright and resilient students who go on to have positive futures. «
1 UNDP 2 Council on Foreign Relations 3 UNESCO, 2011 4 UNHCR Population Profiling Verification and Response survey, 2011
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