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Education in Conflict Zones: Advancing Technology for Learning in Chad

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Wednesday, December 13, 2023
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The initiative's aim is to improve and ensure continuity of children's learning for displaced children in conflict affected regions through engaging technology.

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  • The initiative's aim is to improve and ensure continuity of children's learning for displaced children in conflict affected regions through engaging technology.
  • Children make up 54% of the forcibly displaced population in Chad, putting significant pressure on the country's education system.
  • With limited funding in the education sector, overcrowded classrooms and a shortage of qualified teachers, hundreds of thousands of children including refugees have limited access to education.
  • Chad's Refugee Education Strategy for 2018-2019 highlighted the Can't Wait to Learn program as a notable achievement within the education sector.

Education in Conflict Zones: Advancing Technology for Learning in Chad

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Thursday, December 14, 2023
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The initiative's aim is to improve and ensure continuity of children's learning for displaced children in conflict affected regions through engaging technology.

Key Points: 
  • The initiative's aim is to improve and ensure continuity of children's learning for displaced children in conflict affected regions through engaging technology.
  • Children make up 54% of the forcibly displaced population in Chad, putting significant pressure on the country's education system.
  • With limited funding in the education sector, overcrowded classrooms and a shortage of qualified teachers, hundreds of thousands of children including refugees have limited access to education.
  • Chad's Refugee Education Strategy for 2018-2019 highlighted the Can't Wait to Learn program as a notable achievement within the education sector.

'Performative cruelty': the hostile architecture of the UK government's migrant barge

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Wednesday, July 26, 2023
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The arrival of the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland Port, in Dorset, on July 18 2023, marks a new low in the UK government’s hostile immigration environment.

Key Points: 
  • The arrival of the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland Port, in Dorset, on July 18 2023, marks a new low in the UK government’s hostile immigration environment.
  • The vessel is set to accommodate over 500 asylum seekers.
  • My research shows that facilities built to house irregular migrants in Europe and beyond create a temporary infrastructure designed to be hostile.

Precarious space

    • Journalists Lizzie Dearden and Martha McHardy have shown this means the asylum seekers housed there – for up to nine months – will have “less living space than an average parking bay”.
    • This stands in contravention of international standards of a minimum 4.5m² of covered living space per person in cold climates, where more time is spent indoors.
    • Locals are concerned already overstretched services in Portland, including GP practices, will not be able to cope with further pressure.
    • The difficulty of escaping a vessel at sea could turn it into a death trap.

Performative hostility

    • In 2015, Berlin officials began temporarily housing refugees in the former Tempelhof airport, a noisy, alienating industrial space, lacking in privacy and disconnected from the city.
    • French authorities, meanwhile, opened the Centre Humanitaire Paris-Nord in Paris in 2016, temporary migrant housing in a disused train depot.
    • Nicknamed la Bulle (the bubble) for its bulbous inflatable covering, this facility was noisy and claustrophobic, lacking in basic comforts.
    • Like the barge in Portland Port, these facilities, placed in industrial sites, sit uncomfortably between hospitality and hostility.
    • Rather than deterring asylum seekers, the Bibby Stockholm is potentially creating another hazard to them and to their hosting communities.

RPP Containers Celebrates 25th Anniversary

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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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RPP Containers® , a leading custom manufacturer, stocking distributor, and recycler of reusable plastic bulk containers, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a $250,000 donation for the education of over 1,000 students in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Key Points: 
  • RPP Containers® , a leading custom manufacturer, stocking distributor, and recycler of reusable plastic bulk containers, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a $250,000 donation for the education of over 1,000 students in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Over the past few years, RPP has been working with the Society of Jesus-East Africa and the Jesuit Refugee Service-Eastern Africa to identify and pay the school fees for the neediest students in several different countries.
  • This year, its 25th anniversary year, RPP has committed to pay the school fees for over 1,000 students that attend primary and secondary schools, in 28 different schools, in 10 different African countries.
  • We know that God has blessed RPP tremendously over the years, and it is only fitting that we share these blessings with those less fortunate who could use our help.”

Verbum Dei High School Announces New President, Fr. Travis Russell, S.J.

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Monday, April 4, 2022
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Verbum Dei High School, a private Jesuit college preparatory school for young men and a member of the Cristo Rey network, announced today that Fr.

Key Points: 
  • Verbum Dei High School, a private Jesuit college preparatory school for young men and a member of the Cristo Rey network, announced today that Fr.
  • Russell to Verbum Dei High School as its next President.
  • Russell spent time at Verbum Dei High School from 2014 to 2016 as a teacher, Director of Adult Faith Formation and working with Mission Advancement.
  • Verbum Dei is a Jesuit Catholic college preparatory school that is part of the Cristo Rey Network.

Jesuit Refugee Service Portugal and The Romulus T. Weatherman Foundation Complete Rescue of 220 Afghan Nationals to Portugal

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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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NEW YORK and LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jesuit Refugee Service Portugal (JRS Portugal) and The Romulus T. Weatherman Foundation (The Foundation) of New York are pleased to announce the rescue of and granting of asylum to Portugal of 220 Afghan nationals.

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  • NEW YORK and LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jesuit Refugee Service Portugal (JRS Portugal) and The Romulus T. Weatherman Foundation (The Foundation) of New York are pleased to announce the rescue of and granting of asylum to Portugal of 220 Afghan nationals.
  • The rescue of the soccer players and their families began in August with an operation underwritten in entirety by The Romulus T. Weatherman Foundation.
  • The Romulus T. Weatherman Foundation has made a significant contribution to JRS Portugal to ensure the support of each of the families as they resettle in Portugal.
  • The Romulus T. Weatherman Foundation was established by Elizabeth H. Weatherman and Andrew P. Duncan.