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P6 Refugee Day

P6 students from Arusha Campus "walked in the shoes" of refugees on Wednesday 14 December as part of their unit of inquiry, Move It or Lose It. Students found themselves in family groupings having to carry their belongings and follow clues to search for a refugee camp, dodging "soldiers" and authority figures along the way. They each carried a "baby" and helped one injured family member to safely reach the camp. Once they arrived, they needed to produce identification in order to enter the confines of the camp and get their rations of rice. Some groups found themselves without identification and were herded by the soldiers into the UN truck where they needed to complete a registration form (written in an unknown language) in order to enter the refugee camp. By helping each other, all family groups safely made it into the camp, where they had to search for both water and wood, carrying them from afar in order to get water to drink. Once the day was over, students were happy to go home to a warm bed, food and water. As one student reflected: "We finally learned the refugee way: carrying, hiding, waiting, running, never getting to have fun, working, survival."

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