Education a luxury in refugee camps

In one of the largest and oldest refugee settlements in the world, education is a luxury denied most of the 90,739 children who live there. Set up at the outset of Somalia’s civil war in 1991 to accommodate 90,000 refugees, three camps near the northeastern Kenyan town of Dadaab -- Hagadera, Ifo and Dagahaley -- are now home to more than three times that number, and persistent conflict in Somalia, from where 95% of the refugees originate, means the population grows daily. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the primary school attendance rate is 43% while in secondary schools the rate is just 12%. Read more at IRIN News online.