Displaced Children and Youth Program

Displaced young person in       Northern Uganda
Photo by Juliet Young

Ensuring Opportunities for Displaced Children and Young People

Download our fact sheet on our youth program.

More than 43 million children living in conflict-affected areas don’t have a chance to go to school. Of those children, many are doubly disadvantaged by being refugees or displaced within their country’s borders. Girls are worst off of all.

Without school or vocational training, displaced teens sit idle in camps all day long. As is the case anywhere in the world, these youth—with growing frustration and little hope for the future—can become a source of violence and insecurity. Meanwhile, their enormous potential as constructive contributors to their societies goes largely unnoticed and unsupported by the international community. Read our synopsis of the field-testing of the Market Assessment Toolkit for Vocational Training Providers and Youth

Education is a human right, regardless of the circumstance a child is in, and is essential to the development of a stable society. Often, the only hope of people in war-torn regions is that the coming generations are educated and have the ability to promote peace and sustainable development. Read our fact sheet on education for refugee children.

The Women’s Refugee Commission’s Youth Program works to ensure that displaced children and youth have opportunities to learn and grow so they can contribute to their communities and be able to one day support themselves and their own families. The Women’s Refugee Commission does this through these initiatives:

• Displaced Youth Initiative
• Ensuring Education in Emergencies
• Refugee Girls: The Invisible Faces of War