ninemillion.org is a UN refugee agency campaign providing refugee children with access to education, sport, and technology. The UN refugee agency provides protection to close to 33 million refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDPs), more than half of whom are young people. Refugee children have often suffered enormously, leaving them severely traumatized. The trauma is not left behind when they finally make it to a refugee camp. Some refugees are born and live out their childhood in camps. Did you know the average refugee spends 12 years in a camp? What happens to them during their years as refugees is up to all of us.
The UN refugee agency's ninemillion.org campaign is committed to giving the most vulnerable refugee and IDP children in the world the chance to learn and play. Many of these children have no access to any formal education and live in camps or urban settlements with no playgrounds or sports facilities. It’s easy to take for granted access to education, sport, and technology, but millions of kids miss out on these important elements of childhood.
Sport and education are a vital part of childhood. Children need to play and learn. Education provides children with tools to support themselves throughout their lives. Sport develops tolerance and cooperation, and is a great source of inspiration. It can help as part of the healing process for children who have been emotionally affected by conflict, and it motivates refugee children to attend camp schools, which is particularly important for girls, who are all too often left out.
By supporting the UN refugee agency's ninemillion.org campaign when you IM or e-mail, you are giving some of the most vulnerable children in the world access to an education that will serve them well for the rest of their lives. You are giving them the chance to know what it is to be part of a winning team. Helping children helps the whole community.
Help them learn. Help them play.
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