The grant will help build 50 two-storey prefabricated moveable steel structures to be used as learning centres for 8,000 Rohingya children. Besides, 100 preprimary learning centres will be built for host community children.

Brac and The Nippon Foundation announced the partnership at a press conference on Wednesday at Brac Centre in the city.

Chairman of The Nippon Foundation Yohei Sasakawa, executive director of Brac Asif Saleh, director of Brac Education Programme Dr Safiqul Islam, other officials of the two organisations and Japanese Embassy in Bangladesh were present at the event.

Chairman Yohei Sasakawa said the objective of their initiative is to create opportunities for Rohingya children so that they can also learn besides the host community children. “We hope that the Rohingya children will be able to continue learning as they return to their homeland.”

Brac Executive Director Asif Saleh said 55 per cent of the people who came from Myanmar are children. “So, we’re focusing on their education.”

Brac officials informed the press that right from the beginning of the new influx of the Rohingya people into Bangladesh in 2017, Brac undertook education programme for their children as the largest partner of the government in this regard.

The learning curricula for Rohingya children include preprimary education, alphabets and numbers, lifesaving information, psychological counselling and life skills development.

Brac is also developing education materials for Classes One and Four for Rohingya children.

Currently, more than 61,000 children of 4-14 years of age are receiving basic education in its 759 learning centres at the Rohingya camps in Ukhya and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar.

Some 51 percent of these children are girls and 722 are disabled among them.

Also, 57 percent members of the managing committees of these learning centres are women.