by anya | Jun 20, 2017 | World Refugee Day 2017
Sazzad Hossain, the founder of the social enterprise SDI Academy, also visited to share his experience with Migrant Workers in Singapore and what he is doing to promote social inclusion. So far, this group has trained 500 migrant workers in Singapore, and they are...
by Philippa | Jun 20, 2017 | World Refugee Day 2017
Dr Hakim Young is a Singaporean who has been working in Afghanistan for 15 years. Today he spoke about his work in conflict zones and his mission to end war Don’t ever let our education or any ideology or any sociology interfere with what we all understand in...
by Philippa | Jun 20, 2017 | World Refugee Day 2017
Sky School is a new initiative here at UWC. It was founded by Polly Akhurst and Mia Eskelund who are alumni from a different UWC. Sky School aims to give refugees an education, and our focus is the Syrian refugees living in Jordan, particularly those around the ages...
by anya | Jun 20, 2017 | World Refugee Day 2017
Check out this video on the day so far! #UWCwithRefugees
by anya | Jun 20, 2017 | World Refugee Day 2017
We are incredibly lucky to have Joy Haugen, UWCSEA Service Department, originally from South Sudan to talk about her experience being a refugee. She grew up in a refugee camp after moving there when she was 6 years old to support her grandmother. Recently, Joy visited...