Creating a School for Community: Refugees and Nationals Study Together in Uganda
In this interview, educator Jacques Bwira sits down with Sarah Dryden-Peterson of the Harvard Graduate School of Education to discuss the challenges and opportunities of different models of refugee education: non-formal schooling centered in community and formal schooling in government schools. He describes his processes of building relationships with students, teachers, and parents, and his ways of building these relationships among refugees and nationals.
Jacques Bwira founded Great Lakes Primary School in Kampala, Uganda at a time when refugee children were not permitted to live in cities and had little access to education. As laws and policies shifted in Uganda, this school became a formal school, registered with the Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports.
Watch the full interview here.