Assessment of Rwanda Refugee Camps in the Context of the Villagization Process
Undergraduate researcher for the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity and Engaged Learning Fellow Sienna Dugan, researched secondary sources and primary research through site visits, participatory observation, and interviews with key informants to compile this report which is structured like a case study with additional literature review. All photography is original to the student from her in-field research.
Undergraduate researcher for the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity and Engaged Learning Fellow Sienna Dugan, researched secondary sources and primary research through site visits, participatory observation, and interviews with key informants to compile this report which is structured like a case study with additional literature review. All photography is original to the student from her in-field research.
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The first commitment focuses on access to basic services and socio-economic investments
regarding education, health, water supply, road rehabilitation, and market infrastructure.
Investments to support the integration of refugees into public schools and to increase the quality
of such schools will be made. In 2018 in Mahama Camp, 25,341 Burundian refugee students were
integrated into the national education system at Paysannat L. School and an accompanying satellite
school.15 The health center run by the American Refugee Committee in Mahama Camp also
provides care for neighboring villages. A permanent water treatment plant was constructed in
order to supply water to both refugees and the cost community from the Akagera River. Market
infrastructure surrounding Mahama is generally poor. Although many of the refugees receive
training opportunities, the overcrowding in the camp, need for road rehabilitation, and further
understanding of labor laws within the refugee community and by Rwandan nationals, act as
barriers to employment (see Figure 9).
15 “Situation Report.” UNICEF Rwanda, 31 Dec. 2018, www.unicef.org/rwanda/topics/situation-report.
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