The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that at the end of 2015 an unprecedented 65.3 million people were displaced from their homes, forced as a result of war and persecution to seek protection elsewhere. Half of those displaced were children.
The global impact of this mass displacement has brought about new challenges to societies participating in refugee resettlement. One important area of concern in many of the resettlement countries is the education of students with limited or interrupted formal education or SLIFE. Years of migration and/or years of residence in refugee camps have resulted in limited access to formal schooling for many refugee students, and it is the educational needs of these students that this proposal seeks to address.
