The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that the number of displaced people has been increasing rapidly, with a particularly high increase in recent years reaching catastrophic levels, surpassing 120 million.

This record-breaking figure represents a significant increase, with one in 67 people worldwide currently forcibly displaced due to conflict, violence, or natural disasters.

This exceptional reality comes in the context of food rations drastically dwindling, clean water has become a vanishing mirage- these are the realities thousands of displaced community are being forced to live with.

Access to education almost non-existence as classes remain unoccupied due to lack of staff whose contracts were terminated. Education and sexual reproductive health services including maternity driven almost to a halt as access to healthcare faces unpredictable financing.

Kudos to Kenya, Uganda for hosting refugees from around Africa. Kenya SHIRIKA PLAN (The Shirika Plan -formerly the Marshal Plan- is a collaborative effort between the Government of Kenya and UNHCR Kenya) refugees’ resettlement and reintegration plan should be applauded.

However, countries in the Global North must take responsibility and continue to support displaced populations globally.

For Mire, founder of Refugee Youth Education Hub, local problems require local solutions emphasizing humanity, collective and social responsibility, civic education and that investment in the manufacturing sector will curtail over dependence, provide jobs and minimize brain drain from the continent.

Image (c) mage: Getty Images/AFP/T. Karumba from the article: Kenyan court overrules decision to close Dadaab refugee camp.

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