New UNHCR program aims to close the refugee education gap

Education, especially secondary schooling, provides a route to economic self-sufficiency and a way to regain a sense of purpose and dignity after displacement

Nowadays, making an investment — whether in shares, bonds, property, gold, lottery tickets or the latest start-up — is quick and easy, but when it comes to investments in people, the dividends are not always as clear, nor is the means by which the returns cam be measured.

One might be doubly wary of investing in people who have been uprooted from their homes, stripped of their livelihoods and possessions, possibly separated from their families and forced to start all over again, but, in fact, refugees are one of the best investments out there.

Educating those who have been displaced by conflict and upheaval is not an expense, but a golden opportunity.