Mastercard foundation partners to empower refugee education

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The Mastercard Foundation has partnered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on a five-year, $300 million initiative to support education for displaced refugees in Africa. This significant commitment aims to enable over half a million refugees and displaced youth to complete their education and 200,000 young people to transition into dignified work by 2030.

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The initiative also seeks to support 10,000 young people in tertiary education, including university and technical training, while strengthening 100 local and refugee-led organisations to implement solutions and influence policy. This builds on previous partnerships between the Mastercard Foundation and UNHCR, which have already shown promising results.

For example, a programme supporting refugees in Sudan and neighbouring countries has helped 30,000 young people return to secondary education and enabled 68,000 youth, 62% of whom are women, to access work opportunities within just six months.

UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Kelly T. Clements praised the partnership, saying, “Its scale and long-term focus—on education for refugee children and youth and on livelihoods for adults—lay the foundation for meaningful recovery and lasting contributions to host communities.” She added, “The stability and opportunities such support provides are exactly what displaced communities need to rebuild their lives and move forward amid all the challenges they face.

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