Africa-Press – Malawi. The department of Refugees Independent Schools Association (RISA) at Dzaleka camp is lobbing with government for a policy shift to allow refugees in the country to attain tertiary education and have access to job opportunities so that it can change their life style as most of them are living in uncertainty.
Director of RISA Pascal Bagaluza made the call on Wednesday in Lilongwe during a dialogue meeting on refugee rights and inclusion organized by Inua Advocacy.
Bagaluza highlighted that life is becoming hard at Dzaleka refugee camp due to some reasons being travel restrictions, education problems (registering 34,000 learners) against fifty private schools inside the camp with only two government schools, and that alot of people are staying over the past five years without refugee status determination which is becoming hard for them to access essential services.
“We are lacking proper traveling documents so that we can pursue other carriers out there, the waist thing is that some of our colleagues are staying there at the camp for long now without granted their refugee status, these things alone they are delaying our progress in this life,” he said.
Alice Ahobantegeye Program Manager at Dzaleka Azimai Union, said that they are just existing as human beings not living a life that any person deserves as most of them hardly find their way of survival.
Ahobantegeye who is also working as Inua Advocacy interpreter has been at Dzaleka refugee camp for over twenty five years, she said that they are living in a hectic and uncertain life and she is lobbing for government to consider giving them chance to go further with education and get job opportunities to earn a living.
“As for me am being affected mentally because am not stable, as my future is uncertain, am just existing I don’t live, I need to live that’s what I can say,” she said.
Brenda Buliyani Inua Advocacy communications officer said as an organization striving to find means and ways to ensure the rights of refugees are protected and that they are enjoying as anyone else.
Currently, Dzaleka refugee camp is accommodating over fifty-five thousand people against the estimated capacity of twelve thousand people with the majority being the young people.
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