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Education for Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh 

Children on the Edge provides education for over 6,000 Rohingya refugee children who are cut off from learning in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh. 

DID YOU CATCH US ON AL JAZEERA?

Our digital education work for Rohingya refugee children has recently been featured on Al Jazeera, who visited the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh to find out about challenges to current provision. They visited some of the classrooms we support and learned about how we are working with the local community to tackle language barriers and provide meaningful education.

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FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4

Presented by actress Susannah Fielding, our appeal broadcast in October 2025 told the inspiring story of Rohingya refugee children who are finally learning to read and write in their own language.

Radio 4 listeners helped us raise over £50,000 for our work providing meaningful education in Kutupalong - the largest refugee camp in the world.

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Bangladesh is home to over 880,000 Rohingya refugees who have faced decades of persecution in Myanmar. Thousands of children are cut off from learning in Kutupalong, the largest refugee camp in the world, or transported to the remote island of Bhasan Char, in the Bay of Bengal. 

We provide education to over 6,000 Rohingya refugee children in bright, colourful learning centres, surrounded by plants and flowers. Using locally trained teachers, we deliver an award-winning digital curriculum and the first ever camp-based lessons taught in the Rohingya script, so children can learn in their own language. ​

Learning centres in Kutupalong camp on the border of Myanmar and on the remote island of Bhasan Char, encourage creativity and self expression. We are pioneering groundbreaking lessons in the Rohingya language, using the ‘Hanifi’ script. These are complemented by video lessons to break down language barriers and give children visual experiences outside the confines of the camp. We include plenty of play, creativity and basic health support in safe spaces with trusted adults.

Classes love to participate in our popular ‘Moja Kids’ programme, an online newsletter produced by the children, who connect and exchange ideas, experiences and talents with peers across different areas of the country and as far as India, Uganda and Cambodia. They also have the opportunity to make their voices heard through each school's Child Council and learn about their rights and how to realise them. 

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Meet Romaina

In August 2017, Romaina and her family fled genocide in Myanmar. Now in the world's largest refugee camp, Romaina learns with friends at our centre and is one of the first ever Rohingya children to learn in her own language, using the new ‘Hanifi’ script. 

She feels proud and excited, saying, "Hanifi is much easier to read, write, speak, memorise, and understand! I want to be well-educated and skilled because 95-100% of our Rohingya population are uneducated. I want to use this new skill to change my community in the future."

Your donation will help children like Romaina who have fled violence to get the education they deserve. 
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OUR IMPACT

6,700

Rohingya refugee learners accessing high quality education at 54 learning centres

133

trained refugee teachers providing lessons in the Rohingya language

280

children engaged in Child Councils to have their say

Children from our learning centres in Bangladesh showing off their new bags and pencil cases

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£5

could provide new Rohingya language textbooks for 5 students.

£12

could provide school books & stationery for 4 Rohingya children.

£21

Could provide a refugee teachers salary in Kutupalong for a week.

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