The board game getting kids excited about school | Joel Baraka

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🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Going to school in a refugee camp can be complicated: students encounter crowded classrooms, rigid curricula and limited access to teachers. Joel Baraka, who grew up in the Kyangwali refugee camp in Uganda, is determined to change that for the better. He shows how educational board games can be a fun and effective way to improve access to learning and help kids thrive in and out of school.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.7	Numbers show something like 100 million people have been displaced in the past year.
0:12.6	That means millions and millions of children are growing up in refugee camps.
0:17.2	Joelle Baraka doesn't want them to lose out on education that can help them thrive in
0:21.3	the future.
0:22.4	In his 2022 talk from the Bezos scholar salon, he points at a simple and inexpensive way
0:28.4	he's doing just that.
0:29.9	After a short break.
0:59.9	135 American government teachers in Congress.
1:04.5	They will whip that thing into shape so fast that every single one knows a three branches
1:09.2	of government, every single one.
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