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KASA HIGH SCHOOL

SUPPORTS REFUGEES

AND ASYLUM SEEKERS

The Office of the United Nations Initially, fifteen scholarships were offered to the students
Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Cyprus who would score the highest mark in the placement tests in
and KASA High School signed a Mathematics, English, History and Computer Literacy. Later
Memorandum of Understanding to on, the results revealed that twenty students passed the
jointly work in the protection of exams. Convinced that all these students that fought for this
refugee children in the Republic of achievement as a key to a better future deserved an
Cyprus by enabling them to receive opportunity, Mr. Yiannis Saveriades, the president of KASA
formal education. The agreement High School, decided to offer a scholarship to attend high
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signed on the 8 of March 2018 is an school to all twenty successful candidates. He has stated
affirmation of the significance of the following: “I believe that the extraordinary courage that
education as a fundamental human all refugees have displayed in their search of a better future
right that leads people to become will be a huge inspiration for our School, for both students
autonomous and respected members and teachers, and I am sure that they, too, will have a lot to
of the society. Apart from the literacy teach us”.
skills, refugee students will be
encouraged to engage in extra- “Education plays a central role in UNHCR’s refugee
curricular activities and events held by protection and durable solutions mandate”, said Mr.
KASA High School or any other Damtew Dessalegne, UNHCR Representative in Cyprus. “I,
organisation. In this way, the school therefore, very much welcome the willingness and
aims at showing at a local and readiness of KASA High School to actively support refugee
international level that these people education and protection in general, in partnership with
have a voice and have a lot to offer UNHCR. Such partnerships are essential particularly at
to–not just benefit from–the place present when we are confronted with many complex
where they live. challenges accompanying refugees in finding safety and

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