Refugee Week

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Refugee Week
Next week is Refugee Week (16th-22nd June) and ends with World Refugee Day on
20th June. This gives teachers a focus for exploring the reasons why people are
forced to leave their homes and the economic, social and personal consequences of
them doing so. Broadcasters will be including news items and other stories which
can be used to illustrate the experiences of refugees, but there is already a good
selection of material available on Broadcaster’s websites and on-demand services.
BBC
The BBC Learning Zone has several Class Clips and other useful material for teachers such as
the short film “Living as a Refugee”
The Class Clips can be used to support a range of curriculum areas such as social studies and
geography, as well as PSHE.
On CBBC, Newsround has a report first broadcast in December 2013 explaining the Syrian
Crisis and looking at the immense refugee crisis it has created. There is also a report looking
at what life is like for children left homeless by the crisis and who have been forced to flee to
camps in the Lebanon.
Channel 4
“What’s it Like to Life as a Refugee?”
A report looking at how what life is really like as a Syrian refugee living in the UK.
My Refugee Journey: Jamal Osman’s Video Diary
C4 reporter Jamal Osman retraces the journey he took as a desperate refugee, from Somalia to
South Africa fleeing Somalia’s brutal civil war 18 years ago.
The Lost Boys
The story of thousands of young boys who fled from the Sudanese Army as it launched attacks
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on villages in the south of the country. The survivors fled into the bush, trekking through the
wilderness until they reached Kakuma, a squalid refugee camp in Kenya, where many have
remained ever since. They are known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. In 1999 3,500 of these young
men were offered the chance to start a new life in the USA, and this film follows a group of
these as they try to build new lives.
In addition, the Guardian’s Teacher network has a page on How to teach Refugee Week at
www.theguardian.com/teacher-network
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