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Researching the gap: Community health worker education in Dadaab
About BHER

Researching the gap: Community health worker education in Dadaab

By F. Beryl Pilkington & Isabella Mbai November 2016 York University’s Dr. Beryl Pilkington and Moi University’s Dean of the School of Nursing Isabella Mbai conducted a research project on…

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BHER Learning Centre Construction

The BHER Learning Centre will provide a welcoming and rich learning environment for BHER students as they pursue their studies. It is anticipated that the first cohort of BHER students…

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The BHER Enabling Fund supports students who have no financial means to participate in the post-secondary programs offered by the BHER Consortium in Dadaab, Kenya.

As little as $10 CAD helps cover costs of transportation and food for a day of study at the BHER Learning Centre.

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Vision

BHER seeks to contribute to efforts to establish the conditions for justice, sustainability, and peace in Kenya, Somalia, and the surrounding Eastern/Central African region through the provision of equitable, gender-sensitive, and culturally-responsive university programs to untrained refugee and local teachers and community educators in Dadaab, Kenya.

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BHER seeks to contribute to efforts to establish the conditions for justice, sustainability, and peace in Kenya, Somalia, and the surrounding Eastern/Central African region through the provision of equitable, gender-sensitive, and culturally-responsive accredited university programs to untrained refugee and local teachers and community leaders in Dadaab, Kenya.

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York University
Kenyatta University
Windle International Kenya
Lutheran World Federation
UNHCR Kenya

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Affiliated with
Centre for Refugee Studies
Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium

Project Partners

  • York University
  • Kenyatta University
  • Windle International Kenya
  • Lutheran World Federation
  • UNHCR Kenya

Affiliated with
Centre for Refugee Studies
Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium

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Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Project, managed through the Faculty of Education at York University.

027 Winters College
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3
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bher@yorku.ca

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