The refugees learning to reconnect

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The refugees learning to reconnect

UNHCR, 24 Jul 2015

URL: http://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2015/7/56ec1ea5e/the-refugees-learning-to-reconnect.html
In Mauritania, a Congolese mother is helping refugees to reconnect by teaching IT, 17 years after her own displacement.

The city of Nouakchott, Mauritania, is no stranger to refugees. Around 1,500 people who have fled some of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts now call it home. One of them, Budiaki*, is sitting in a computer room at a bustling women’s centre when I arrive, using her own experiences of life on the run to help women just like her.