Speaking ahead of the award announcement, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said: “Abdullahi Mire is living proof that transformative ideas can spring from within displaced communities. I think it’s the midwife of peace and stability, if not more.” “For societies to progress, especially the ones recovering from decades of conflict, education must be a priority.

If you give quality education for these children or youths, their lives will be improved for good,” he added.

“ The only way to do that is through education. “I want to change the lives of refugee children and youth living in Daadab”, he told the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia ( UNSOM) in 2020. His experience led him to start the Refugee Youth Education Hub (RYEH) in 2018, focusing on refugee education and youth development. Mire spent 23 years living in the Dadaab complex himself, from the early 1990s, and eventually went on to graduate with a diploma in journalism and public relations in 2013 from Kenya’s Kenyatta University.Īfter working for the UN migration agency IOM, in Somalia, specialising in the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of former combatants, he realised that without being literate, many were being brainwashed and radicalized. Of those managing to complete secondary school only a small number have been able to carry on into tertiary education. The majority of the population, around 56 per cent according to 2020 figures, are children.Īt that point there were over 60,000 students enrolled up to secondary school level, but despite that, the demand for teachers, supplies and classroom space, has long outstripped supply, leading to poor educational outcomes.

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