By Nan Wai Phyo Zar / Karen Information Center / BNI Online | April 11, 2018
Some schools in the Kayin (Karen) refugee camps are facing difficulties to continue teaching in upcoming years due to lack of funding, according to education officials from the refugee camps.
The Karen Refugee Committee Education Entity’s chair Naw Da Boe Yar Htoo said these schools are facing difficulties since some donor organizations have cut funding for the refugee camps and some will stop providing the funding.
“The basic education schools are in a better situation. It’s difficult for post-ten schools (high education). We have lesser support for all schools in funding and construction of school buildings. We have to discuss with the organizations on how the schools that are facing difficulties will proceed,” Naw Da Boe Yar Htoo told KIC News.
The education sector of the refugee camps have been affected more or less by the gradual decline in food support and other assistance by international donors for the refugee camps since late 2012.
“There will only be one post-ten school left in Nu Po
Besides the schools in the Kayin refugee camps at the Thai-Myanmar border, Myanmar migrant schools are also facing difficulties relating to education, according to groups providing educational assistance to Myanmar migrant schools.
This article originally appeared on BNI Online on April 10, 2018.