Rohingya children in Bangladesh have been shut away in refugee camps for years. With restrictions on internet use, they are cut off from opportunities to connect beyond the barbed wire fences that surround Kutupalong camp, and have little means to experience the outside world.
This all changed through the introduction of digital lessons, and the children’s very own online newsletter, called 'Moja Kids’.
Using dedicated green screen rooms, children record their news, talents, thoughts and experiences, and every weekly episode is beamed to peers in schools outside the camps, both in wider Bangladesh, and internationally, who connect by recording their own contributions.
These fun-packed productions have been airing to thousands of children since 2019, creating great elation from the children and fast becoming their ‘favourite things about school’.
This year, their excitement has grown tenfold, as the technology used in four green screen studios across the programme now enables children to experience adventures like flying in spaceships to explore the planets or even riding a broomstick to home villages in Myanmar, which they miss so much.
The goal of Moja Kids is to provide children with a blank canvas so that they can express themselves in any way that they choose, and with new translators, artists and technicians in place, the children cannot wait to put any idea they can dream up into reality.