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Lower thirds:

00:02 Report by Arafatul Islam & Nahid Anjuman
01:25 Taslima | Former teacher
02:09 Ayatollah | Volunteer teacher
02:52 Kam Morshed | Senior Director, BRAC Bangladesh

Script:
 
A downpour provides a brief diversion for these kids in the huge camp in Cox's Bazar. Over 1.2 million Rohingya refugees who have fled from Myanmar to avoid persecution live here. Many of them are children. 
 
00:18 - 00:34   
Hamidur Rahman was a third grader at a learning center run by UNICEF. His school is currently shuttered and at risk of permanent closure due to a fund shortage at the UN agency.  
 
00:36 - 00:48  SOT 01 (Bengali)
Hamidur Rahman Rohingya student  
"My school is closed now. I try to continue my lessons at home. I feel sad that I can't go to school anymore. I spend my day riding a bicycle and playing with other kids." 
 
00:48 - 01:01   
Hamidur kept the bag and books he got for free from UNICEF's learning center. Rohingya pupils are only allowed to follow the Burmese curriculum for basic education. Still, Hamidur dreamed big.  
 
01:01 - 01:05  SOT 02 (Bengali)
Hamidur Rahman Rohingya student  
"I wanted to be a doctor. But it won't happen now."  
 
01:04 - 01:07    
Many Rohingya teachers also lost their jobs after the fund shortage was announced earlier this month.  
 
01:07 
Among them was Taslima, a 22-year-old Rohingya teacher who used to teach her pupils in this classroom.  
 
01:23 - 01:48  SOT 03 (Bengali Female)
Taslima Sacked Rohillngya teacher 
"I taught 30 students in the morning and 30 others in the afternoon every day. I used to teach them math, the Burmese language, and social study. We gave them books, pens, papers, meals, and other good things. We and the students are both suffering because of the closures." 
 
01:49
Some of the students who were taking lessons at the UNICEF funded learning centers have since enrolled into private learning facilities run by educated Rohingya adults. They teach free of charge, but only have room for a fraction of the children.
 
02:08 - 02:38  SOT 04 (Bengali)
Ayatollah Rohingya teacher 
"We are getting more and more students nowadays as all the schools run by NGOs are closed now. Some dedicated students come to us while others roam around idle. We provide them with as much education as possible. But we can't offer them books, pens, papers or any meal during their breaks." 
 
02:39 
Experts estimate that around 10,000 students can be enrolled in private centers, a tiny number compared to the hundreds of thousands of pupils needing education.     

02:51 - 03:29 
SOT 05 (English) KAM Morshed 
Senior Director, BRAC Bangladesh 
"There were around 6,500 learning centers serving around 300,000 Rohingya children. And those learning centers used to employ around 11,000 teaching volunteers.  
Of these 6,500, around 4,500 were funded by UNICEF and due to the funding cut, UNICEF had to close 4,500 learning centers. Rest of the learning centers were also closed. So basically, 300,000 children now don't have a learning center to go." 
 
03:29
Without the UNICEF learning centers, the future of students like Hamidur looks bleak. And the Bangladeshi government will not allow them to go to state schools. It wants all Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar, but that is unlikely to happen soon.