R2E: Human Rights Mobile Library
Providing a space and the materials for refugee students to learn about human rights and their right to education!
R2E is a chest full of learning tools, including e-readers loaded with books and documents, maps, utensils, and other resources and curriculum — focusing on human rights. Per requests from the refugee students, it will also include English learning material. Along with the chest, the mobile library will include tables, chairs, and mats to make a comfortable learning environment. The library is mobile (two donkeys can carry it all), so it can move to the different schools and classrooms in the camps.
Two R2E libraries will be created, one in Darfuri refugee Camp Djabal and another in Camp Goz Amer, in Chad, close to the Sudan border.
HRW Student Task Force will…
STF members will research appropriate resources and materials and will be in contact with the refugee students as they explore what the Right to Education means and what the reality is for other youth around the world, where education might actually be a matter of life and death.
Our Plan: Fall 2011…
- Determine and create educational materials for the library to be delivered to the camps by i-ACT.
- Communicate with the refugee students and teachers in the Chad camps via PAZOCALO. The mutually enriching relationships that develop allow for limitless impact on both continents.
Recent News:
The Life of Darfuri Women
Dear Gabriel, here is the report about the women’s rights in my community.
Women in my community suffer discrimination, negligence and injustice, although she is the most productive part of this community. From the first day of her birth to the family, some families have not celebrate as they do for the baby boys. After she got seven years old, she stands with different responsibilities. Most of them have no chances to schooling as boys have. In her teens, the family will be ready to marry her if some one asked. Most of the girls got married without their knowledge. They must except any husband her father agreed to. Housewife has lots of daily duties. Early in the morning she prepares tea and food, washes the children, sends them to schools or gives them their duties. She gets water and washes every dirty clothes at home. She gathers firewoods, goes to work for money, or to the farm. In the evening, she cooks for the family. Every year women produces more than half of many families’ income.
Thank you, Adam
Photos of women in Camp Djabal, taken by Adam:
The Dilemma
Eight years in the refugee camps in Chad. The refugees are from an Arabic and English speaking nation. Chad is a French speaking country. The communications between UNHCR and the refugees is only through the interpreters. Refugees education is the Sudan education system. The refugees thought that their children must study Sudan education hopping that the Darfur problem may be solved soon, to be home and that will be helpful for the children to resume the education at home. Now eight years have past and the refugees are not able to speak French or even those who could understand french have no rights to be employed as the native Chadian. The refugee worker is accepted by UNHCR as a volunteer to work for a small incentive. The future for these poor refugees is so dark until every one put the things in the right place.
Your mercy my God.
Adam Jabal refugee camp Chad
Jabal refugee camp [secondary school]
Hundreds of English books in the boxes and on the floor for five years without right to any one to use it. I’am the only English teacher there. When I asked why we are not allowed to use these books? The answer is until we built the library.
So the student might wait till the problem in Darfur been solved
Adam Moussa Ahmad
Jabal refugee camp Chad
Kindle 101: How to use a kindle in a refugee camp
Here is a great exchange between Rahma and students at Burbank High School!
Hello my friends Task Force students, Here is another video I want show you haw I am using the Kindle but we need kindle will include many another programs. Thanks yours Rahma
HOW COOL! Some students at Burbank High School use the Kindle, too. I think they are so useful and fun! How do you like it so far? Do you think that the Kindle is better than a regular book? Also, some people think regular books will disappear and the Kindle and similar e-books will replace them. What do you think?
Happily, Burbank High School
Hi my best friends at BurbankHighSchool How are you? And how is your Schools going? Thank you for your message and thank you for your support. Really I think that the Kindle is better than regular books because Kindle has many informations than regular books and I think they are not similar books. Maybe Kindle better and Kindle will include many informations. Thank you yours Rahma