A path to higher education and employment for refugees | Chrystina Russell

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Amanda Chu

Saida Aden Said: I still have this horrific image in my mind.

賽達·亞登·薩伊德： 我腦海中還留有可怖的影像，

I could see people falling down,

我看見有人倒下，

gunshots.

有人開槍。

I was so terrified.

我嚇壞了。

Really, I was crying a lot.

真的，我哭個不停。

Someone who knew my father and my mom grabbed my hand, and he said,

有個認識我父母的人抓住我的手，

他說：「我們走！我們走！」

"Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!"

And I was like, "Where's my mom? My mom? My mom?"

我說：「我媽媽在哪？媽媽？媽媽？」

Noria Dambrine Dusabireme: During nights we would hear shots,

諾莉亞·丹姆布林·杜沙比雷米： 晚上我們會聽到槍聲。

we would hear guns.

Elections were supposed to happen.

本來應該要進行選舉的。

We had young people going in the street,

有年輕人走上街頭，

they were having strikes.

他們罷工抗議。

And most of the young people died.

大部分的年輕人都死了。

SAS: We boarded a vehicle.

賽：我們搭上一輛車。

It was overloaded.

車已經超載。

People were running for their lives.

大家都在逃命。

That is how I fled from Somalia.

我就是這樣逃出索馬利亞。

My mom missed me.

我媽媽很想我，

Nobody told her where I went.

沒有人告訴她我去了哪裡。

NDD: The fact that we did not go to school,

諾：我們沒有去上學，

we couldn't go to the market, we were just stuck home

我們無法去市場，只能被困在家裡。

made me realize that if I got an option to go for something better,

這讓我了解到，

如果我有更好的選擇，

I could just go for it and have a better future.

我就會勇往直前，找到更好的未來。

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Ignazio Matteini: Globally, displaced people in the world

伊納吉歐·馬泰尼： 世界各地流離失所的人數都在增加。

have been increasing.

Now there are almost 60 million people displaced in the world.

現在全世界遷離家園的人數 接近六千萬。

And unfortunately, it doesn't stop.

不幸的是，數字還在增加。

Chrystina Russell: I think the humanitarian community

克莉絲汀娜·羅素：我認為人道主義團體 開始從研究和現實中了解到，

is starting to realize from research and reality

我們在談的是一個更永久性的問題。

that we're talking about a much more permanent problem.

Baylie Damtie Yeshita: These students, they need a tertiary education,

貝里·丹姆泰·葉希塔： 這些學生需要高等教育，

a degree that they can use.

他們能夠用得上的學位。

If the students are living now in Rwanda,

這些學生現在住在盧安達，

if they get relocated, still they can continue their study.

如果他們被迫遷離， 仍然能繼續他們的學業。

Still, their degree is useful, wherever they are.

不論他們身在何處， 他們的學位仍然是有用的。

CR: Our audacious project was to really test

克：我們大膽的計畫是要真正去測試

Southern New Hampshire University's Global Education Movement's

南新罕布夏大學的全球教育運動 是否能夠擴大規模，

ability to scale,

to bring bachelor's degrees and pathways to employment

把學士學位以及通往就業的途徑

to refugees and those who would otherwise not have access to higher education.

帶給難民及本來 無法取得高等教育的人。

SAS: It was almost impossible, as a refugee person,

賽：身為難民，

我幾乎不可能繼續進修， 創造自己的職涯。

to further my education and to make my career.

My name is Saida Aden Said,

我叫賽達·亞登·薩伊德，

and I am from Somalia.

我來自索馬利亞。

I was nine years old when I came to Kakuma,

我九歲時來到卡庫馬，

and I started going to school at 17.

十七歲開始上學。

Now I am doing my bachelor degree

現在我在南新罕布夏大學

with SNHU.

攻讀學士學位。

NDD: My name is Noria Dambrine Dusabireme.

諾：我叫諾莉亞·丹姆布林·杜沙比雷米。

I'm doing my bachelor of arts in communications

我正在攻讀傳播學士學位，

with a concentration in business.

以商業為主要領域。

CR: We are serving students across five different countries:

克：我們服務五個不同國家的學生，

Lebanon, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda and South Africa.

黎巴嫩、肯亞、馬拉威、 盧安達，以及南非。

Really proud to have 800 AA grads to over 400 bachelor's graduates

我很驕傲我們有八百名 文科副學士畢業生、

超過四百位學士畢業生，

and nearly 1,000 students enrolled right now.

現在還有近一千位新生。

So, the magic of this is that we're addressing refugee lives as they exist.

這個計畫的魔力 在於我們考量到難民的生活。

There are no classes.

沒有班級、

There are no lectures.

沒有課程、

There are no due dates.

沒有期限、

There are no final exams.

沒有期末考。

This degree is competency-based and not time-bound.

學位是以能力為基礎，沒有時間束縛。

You choose when you start your project.

你自己決定何時開始。

You choose how you're going to approach it.

你自己決定用什麼方法進行。

NDD: When you open the platform, that's where you can see the goals.

諾：當你打開這個平台， 就能看到各種預設的目標。

Under each goal, we can find projects.

在每個目標底下，可以找到方案。

When you open a project, you get the competencies

打開一個方案之後

就會看到你必須要精通的能力，

that you have to master,

directions

以及方案的指引和概述。

and overview of the project.

CR: The secret sauce of SNHU

克：南新罕布夏大學的密技

is combining that competency-based online learning

是把以能力為基礎的線上學習

with the in-person learning that we do with partners

和我們與學習夥伴 面對面學習結合起來，

to provide all the wraparound supports.

以提供全面性支援。

That includes academic coaching.

其中包括了學術指導、

It means psychosocial support,

社會心理上的支援、

medical support,

醫療上的支援，

and it's also that back-end employment support

還有後期的就業支援。

that's really resulting in the 95 percent graduation,

成果是 95% 的畢業率，

the 88 percent employment.

88% 的就業率。

NDD: I'm a social media management intern.

諾：我是社群媒體管理的實習生。

It's related to the communications degree I'm doing.

這份工作和我攻讀的傳播學位相關。

I've learned so many things out of the project and in the real world.

從這個方案及真實世界中 我學到了好多。

CR: The structured internship is really an opportunity

克：這個有架構的實習方案 是個真正讓學生能練習技能的機會，

for students to practice their skills,

for us to create connections between that internship

也讓我們能將實習

和後續的工作機會連結起來。

and a later job opportunity.

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This is a model that really stops putting time

這個模型的核心

不再是時間、大學政策及程序，

and university policies and procedures at the center

and instead puts the student at the center.

而是學生。

IM: The SNHU model is a big way to shake the tree.

伊：南新罕布夏大學模型 是一項很大的變革。

Huge.

它的影響很大，大大改變了

It's a huge shake to the traditional way of having tertiary education here.

高等教育一定要在這裡 就地進行的傳統方式。

BDY: It can transform the lives of students

貝：對於來自弱勢、 難民社區的學生而言，

from these vulnerable and refugee communities.

這個模型能改變他們的人生。

NDD: If I get the degree,

諾：若我拿到學位，我可以回來，

I can just come back and work everywhere that I want.

到任何我想去的地方工作。

I can go for a masters confidently in English,

我可以很有自信地用英文攻讀碩士，

which is something that I would not have dreamt of before.

這是以前我連想都不敢想的事。

And I have the confidence and the skills required

我也有信心和必要的技能，

to actually go out and just tackle the workplace

真正走出去，到工作場所做事，

without having to fear that I can't make it.

不用擔心我辦不到。

SAS: I always wanted to work with the community.

賽：我一直想和社區合作，

I want to establish a nonprofit.

建立一個非營利組織，

We advocate for women's education.

為女子教育發聲。

I want to be someone who is, like, an ambassador

我想要成為學習大使，

and encourage them to learn

鼓勵她們去學習，

and tell them it is never too late.

告訴她們學習永遠不嫌晚。

It's a dream.

這是個夢想。