VOA Learning English Provides Teachers' Training at Rohingya Refugee Camps
VOA Learning English trainer Anna Matteo leads a class of English language instructors at the Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh on Feb. 12, 2020. The program is part of a year-long course to provide English instruction methods and techniques to a selected group of 76 teachers. The teachers will, in turn, train a larger group of 5,000 volunteers to teach English to Rohingya refugees in Bengladesh. (Hai Do/VOA)
VOA Learning English trainer Caty Weaver leads a class of English language instructors at the Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh on Feb. 12, 2020. The program is part of a year-long course to provide English instruction methods and techniques to a selected group of 76 teachers. The teachers will, in turn, train a larger group of 5,000 volunteers to teach English to Rohingya refugees in Bengladesh. (Hai Do/VOA)
VOA Learning English trainer Anna Matteo shows teacher/trainees a classroom exercise on phonetics at the Kutupalong refugee camp Feb. 17, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
English teacher Rahma Rashid Toki uses the game “Simon Says” to teach English to pre-primary students at Redrose Learning Center in Kutupalong’s Camp 4 extension on Feb. 16, 2020. Toki is one of 76 teachers who received teacher training from VOA Learning
Jonaida is mobbed by her pre-primary classmates after winning the game “Simon Says” at the Redrose Learning Center in Kutupalong’s Camp 4 extension on Feb. 16, 2020. The game taught students how to identify body parts and action and to speak English. (Hai Do/VOA)
Five-year-old Mohammed Hasan practices saying “good morning” during class 1 English at the Seagull Primary School in Kutupalong refugee camp Feb. 15, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
Class 1 students at the Seagull Primary School in Kutupalong refugee camp sing the “good morning” song in English class Feb. 15, 2020. English is one of the subjects allowed to be taught at the camps. (Hai Do/VOA)
VOA Learning English trainer Caty Weaver poses for selfies with teacher/trainees at the end of training at the Kutupalong refugee camp Feb. 17, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
Teacher/trainees hug VOA Learning English trainer Anna Matteo at the end of training at the Kutupalong refugee camp Feb. 17, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
Abu Sayod and his wife, Anuwara Begum, are surrounded with their children in the living room that doubles as the bedroom of their shelter at Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar Feb. 13, 2020. The children are from left, Aru Juma, Anayet Husson, Aziz Fatima, Saiful Islam, Jahed Husson, Tasmin Fatima and Nur Fatima. Abu Sayod worked as a farmer in the Rakhine state of Myanmar until their escape to Bangladesh in 2017. (Hai Do/VOA)
Fifteen-month-old Suhana stands by as her mother Sura Khatum prepares a meal in the family’s kitchen at Kutupalong refugee camp Feb. 15, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
15-month-old Suhana stands by as her mother Sura Khatum prepares a meal in the family’s shelter at Kutupalong refugee camp Feb. 15, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
Women line up to fill containers with drinking water at the Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh on Feb. 12, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
Azizul Raman, 12, carries a container of drinking water home for his family at the Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh on Feb. 12, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
Rukshana Aktar, 12, jumps rope during lunch break at the Ashar Alo Junior Secondary School (Campus -02) in Kutupalong refugee camp Feb. 15, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
From left, Rubi Aktar, 10, Jamat Ara, 9, and Asahan, 9, play hide-and-seek at the Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh on Feb. 12, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
Robaun Alam, 11, plays cricket in an alley at the Kutupalong refugee camp on Feb. 15, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
The road to Kutupalong refugee camps is under construction but heavy traffic continues everywhich way Feb. 15, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
Farmer Muhammad Islam seeds his rice fields near Kutupalong refugee camps in the Teknaf region Feb. 15, 2020. (Hai Do/VOA)
From left, Aman Ullah and Rahamot Ullah full sand bags as part of their work program at the Rohingya refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh on Feb. 12, 2020. Sand bags are used to support tents and build steps around the camps. (Hai Do/VOA)