Ro, a 19 yr old refugee, teaching kids in Cox's Bazaar

Hi, I'm Nigel

After a career in IT sales and more, in 2017 I founded The Learning Street in Vienna with some friends. We "nurture learning communities".

What does that mean? We work to support Community Based Organisations, Youth Led Organisations, and Refugee Led Organisations in places like Uganda, Kenya and Sierra Leone.

With our fast internet in Europe and North America we are able to do in seconds, literally, what takes our friends in Africa .... , well actually they just cannot do it - with their smart phones on relatively expensive data bundles and with intermittent power to charge their devices. Oh, and no light to read by at night, and no books for their kids to read anyway.

The internet, one of my passions, enables me to do, among many other things, just in time learning. We hope that this information arrives just in time with you to make a difference for Ro.

Frankly I was shocked and surprised when I heard last year that the world's largest refugee camp was in Bangaldesh.

Kutupalong refugee camp (Bengali: কুতুপালং শরণার্থী শিবির) is the world's largest refugee camp.[2][3][4] It is located in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, and is inhabited mostly by Rohingya refugees who fled from ethnic and religious persecution in neighboring Myanmar.[5][6] It is one of two government-run refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, the other being the Nayapara refugee camp.[7]

The UNHCR Camp office at Kutupalong is supported by seven international entities: the governments of the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan, Finland, Sweden and the IKEA Foundation.[8][9]

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Although the "Kutupalong Registered Rohingya Refugee camp," in Ukhia, is the original camp,[10] "Kutupalong refugee camp" may also refer to the makeshift camps that have sprung up adjacent to the government-operated camp, although these are not officially part of the refugee camp. Makeshift camps at Kutupalong and surrounding areas have grown to accommodate refugees fleeing Myanmar over the years. In late 2017, due to an unprecedented influx of refugees,[10] the Kutupalong makeshift camp and surrounding camps at Ghumdum, Balukhali, Thangkhali and others swelled rapidly, merging into each other. The International Organization for Migration refers to the collective settlement as the Kutupalong–Balukhali expansion site.[11]

ONE MILLION REFUGEES. Hard to imagine.

Ro is on facebook and LinkedIn and very responsive. In between teaching 150 refugee kids. And getting hassled for pay by 5 teachers who havent been paid since other support dried up

If you wish to support him financially by making an investment here at gofundme in his school project, he, and I, and his community, would be most thankful.

in happiness with love for peace

Nigel Stonham

Vienna - City of Dreams

ps. Trust is important . We trust Ro to use any investments wisely for the good of his students and his project. Beyond that we will share progress and use of funds transparently with you here.