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UNHCR starts providing entrepreneurial skills to refugees in Zambia

Xinhua, November 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has launched a program to provide entrepreneurship skills for children of refugees in Zambia, according to a statement obtained by Xinhua on Friday.

The entrepreneurship innovative program is being implemented at two refugee camps -- Meheba and Mayukwayukwa -- in western Zambia with the support of Caritas Czech Republic and other partners. It is being funded by the UNHCR and the Czech Republic Development Cooperation.

The program, which began with sensitization sessions for pupils in September 2014, is being conducted in three primary schools in each location, catering for both current and former refugees as well as Zambian children.

The program involves the introduction of entrepreneurship clubs and support for activities that generate incomes for schools.

Commending the program, Laura Lo Castro, the UNHCR Representative in Zambia, said it falls within the agency's broader strategy of making people of concern self-reliant through various empowerment initiatives.

The UNHCR, she said, intends to expand the program to cover other schools within the refugee settlement.

Zambia is also implementing an integration program for former Angolan refugees who decided to settle in Zambia after their refugee status expired in June 2012. Endi