Discover how children in one of Africa’s most closed-off countries are facing hidden struggles in education, health, and freedom — and meet the quiet heroes offering care, connection, and hope.
While schooling is officially free, many children leave early due to poverty, conscription fears, or lack of resources. Secondary school students often face military training, and rural children face long travel distances or limited access to quality teachers.
With few income sources and patchy healthcare infrastructure, many children work to support their families — especially in agriculture and informal trade. Preventable illnesses go untreated, and malnutrition persists in both rural and urban settings.
In a country with restricted press, surveillance, and limited civil society, children grow up in silence. Those who experience trauma, abuse, or grief rarely receive emotional support — and public discussion about mental health remains taboo.
While much of Eritrea is closed to external work, RSN supports Eritrean children who have fled to Sudan, Ethiopia, and Uganda. The organization offers access to education, legal protection, psychosocial care, and family tracing services.
RSN works with partner agencies to build learning centers in camps, help refugee children enroll in school, and provide trauma-informed support. For children who crossed borders alone or in fear, RSN offers structure, belonging, and stability.
Their work gives refugee youth more than safety — it gives them a way forward.
Operating quietly through local churches and clinics, St. George Health Outreach provides basic health checkups, nutrition support, and maternal education in Eritrean communities where public clinics are unreliable or absent.
They focus on reaching malnourished children, children with disabilities, and rural families who are often cut off from care. Through local training, food assistance, and medical referrals, they are creating community-based safety nets where none officially exist.
In places where care feels out of reach, they bring it close.
In 2023, RSN and partner organizations launched the Backpack Project, distributing school kits, uniforms, and language resources to Eritrean refugee children in camps in Sudan’s Kassala region.
Children who had been out of school for years lined up to receive their first backpack — some with names stitched by hand. Teachers helped each student enroll in classes, and many began learning the host country’s language for the first time.
The backpacks weren’t just supplies — they were symbols of reentry into hope.
In 2024, St. George Health Outreach organized Nutrition Awareness Day in low-income suburbs outside Asmara, gathering families for workshops on infant care, breastfeeding, and affordable nutrition using local crops.
Health workers distributed fortified porridge, vitamins, and clean water filters, while caregivers learned how to monitor malnutrition at home. Games and cooking demos made the event feel less like a clinic — and more like community.
For many parents, it was their first experience with child-focused health education.
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