In May, the UN World Food Programme (WFP), UNDP, UNHCR and UNESCO had provided support for the training of Somali refugees to carry out a mine-awareness campaign among 22,042 refugees living in two camps in southern Djibouti, the WFP emergency report on 22 June said.
Meanwhile, there was “an alarming increase of girl-student dropouts” in the refugee camps, WFP said. In an attempt to counter the trend, WFP said it had resumed girl-student ration distribution in the camps, in collaboration with UNESCO and UNHCR. As a result, 793 female students had returned to school. In the June report, WFP said it had also initiated a micro-project under which goats would be provided to identified refugee women, so that funds raised from selling offspring of the goats could be used to continue micro-projects for women.
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