Education

Refugee Youth Project expanded its work in 2009 to include an Education Project, which sends volunteers into schools to give presentations and teach lessons to KS3 students (yrs 7, 8 and 9) on refugee and asylum issues.

Background

The aims of the Education Project are:

1. To improve British pupils' knowledge and understanding of refugee and asylum issues and of children’s rights.
2. To develop Refugee Youth Project's links with schools. 

Refugee Youth Project in schools

The workshops were piloted by trustees and volunteers in three schools in London and Brighton during Refugee Week in 2009.

During lessons pupils reflect upon the definitions of 'refugee' and 'asylum seeker', and the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and internationally. Pupils have the opportunity to relate these experiences to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Workshops ultimately encourage pupils to reflect on their own views and rights as well as those of refugees and asylum seekers.

Schools gave excellent feedback about the workshops; all teachers said they would recommend the workshops to other schools.

Pictured above: Winning entries in Refugee Youth Project’s poster competition in Whitefield School, Refugee Week 2009. Congratulations to our winners!

Get involved

Refugee Youth Project volunteers are visiting schools in Sussex to deliver workshops from January 2010.

If you would like to volunteer with Refugee Youth Project’s Education Project or are a teacher interested in Refugee Youth Project visiting your school please email us at education@refugeeyouthproject.org.uk