Shafaqna English- Since the war in Sudan in April 2023, more than 14 million people have been forced to flee their homes, making it the world’s largest displacement crisis. The students in Sudan, amid war, refuse to let war stop their education.
Sarah Tekhlu was ready to give up on university. An Eritrean refugee, she had already been displaced once from Khartoum to Madani, then again to Port Sudan, as war tore through the country around her. Higher education, she had decided, was a luxury she could no longer afford to want.
“I was about to surrender to the idea that higher education was not necessary because I could not attend college,” she says.
Then came a scholarship that changed her mind.
Since the war in Sudan in April 2023, more than 14 million people have been forced to flee their homes, making it the world’s largest displacement crisis.
Sarah is one of hundreds of refugee and internally displaced students in Sudan who have kept their degrees alive through the DAFI programme – scholarships backed by the UNHCR–Mastercard Foundation partnership and run with Windle Trust International
Sources: News.un.org