refugee education

Reuse, Reduce, Repurpose is the ethos at the centre of Tea Bird Tea. This is because founder Ashleigh Cotterill believes that sustainability is not a buzzword, it’s a mandate. And it’s key to how she is scaling her product business. Even something as simple as a cup of tea has the power to do good and we speak to Ashleigh about how she is doing this through her partnership strategy.

In this episode we talk about:

• How Tea Bird Tea was born in the markets of Bondi Beach and the Gold Coast Australia;
• The importance of product differentiation and how Ashleigh achieves this;
• How to scale a product business;
• What it means to be a truly sustainable business;
• What Ashleigh looks for in a partnership;
• How Tea Bird Tea partnerships do good by supporting refugee education in Malaysia.

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Today's Headlines

• COVID-19 cases rise in China
• School of Hope empowers Syria’s “lost generation”
• Texas Church shares Jesus and food

Today's Headlines

• COVID-19 cases rise in China
• School of Hope empowers Syria’s “lost generation”
• Texas Church shares Jesus and food

Today's Headlines

• COVID-19 cases rise in China
• School of Hope empowers Syria’s “lost generation”
• Texas Church shares Jesus and food

I came across the work of our guest today, Luma Mufleh, back in 2019. Even then, I was enchanted by the story of how she created Fugees Academy, a successful private school in Georgia for refugee children who are too often overlooked and underserved in traditional district schools. But I recently finished reading Luma’s newly released book, Learning America: One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children, which joins the story of Fugees Academy with her own powerful story as an immigrant, entrepreneur, soccer coach, school founder and change maker, and wife and mother. Truthfully, Learning America is one of the most extraordinary books I have read in awhile, and it should definitely be on the top of your list of books to read this summer. 

Fugees Family

Luma Mufleh's 2017 TED Talk

Harvard Professor Sarah Dryden-Peterson knows that we can do a lot better for the nearly 30 million refugees in the world. As an expert on refugee education, she says education needs to create better supports for displaced children whose education is disrupted, dominated by exclusion and uncertainty about the future. In her latest research, she shares how governments and international agencies have been hindered in this work and how refugee teachers and students are leading the way to better educational supports. In this episode, she reflects on the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and offers insight into what we've learned from other humanitarian crises.

Gareth is joined by Polly Akhurst and Louie Barnett from Amala Education to discuss the ongoing global refugee crisis, barriers to educational access, and Amala’s transformative learning model and high school diploma program designed to empower refugee youth.