Rohingyas worried about the future of children

News Desk:

Young members of the Rohingya people have called upon on the international community to ensure their children do not become a ‘lost generation’ without education or future.

Speaking on the first day of the annual Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai, Ahmed Ullah and Zainab Arkani said their young people have been left with little hope of educating themselves out of poverty.

The community has faced persecution and what the UN describes as “ethnic cleansing” at the hands of the Myanmar regime.

Ahmed Ullah, who was born in a refugee camp following earlier purges by the government, made it to Canada in 2009. He is now a youth coordinator of the Canadian Rohingya Development Initiative, helping Rohingya Students with Their School.