Unesco – We Teach Here

‘We teach here’ is a series of films sharing the lives of primary school teachers working in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. Using phone cameras to film themselves, the teachers share their stories and the essential role they play in shaping the future of young refugees, under challenging and fast-changing circumstances.

Education changes lives. It’s the way for individuals to grow, to find their way in society and to give back to it. That is why education can’t be interrupted, especially for children growing up in unstable contexts like a refugee camp. IIEP-UNESCO and EdDevTrust run a multi-country research study on promising policies and practices for effective teacher management in refugee settings. They were looking for a visualisation of these research results, complementing the written reports, in order to raise international awareness on the importance of education in a refugee context and the opportunities and challenges involved. The aim is to enable key policy makers and donors to better understand and respond to the daily reality of living and teaching in refugee settings.

(Edit/Post production: Meike Denneman)

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