A group of 80 refugees from France’s “Jungle” camp in the northe port city of Calais have been selected to attend university as part of an initiative to help them ea a degree in preparation for life in their new host country.They were chosen from a pool of 200 applicants from the “Jungle” – a sprawling camp that was home to as many as 10,000 people before it was demolished in October 2016 – to take intensive French language lessons and, eventually follow other coursework at the University of Lille in northe France."I spent two months in the Jungle, and was only able to lea the alphabet," said Abdul-Raouf Hussein-Fadul, a 26-year-old Sudanese man in a baseball cap and white sneakers. "I hope that one day I'll be able to become an engineer in France, like I was in Sudan... It's not easy, I'm going to have to work hard."Prospective students were recruited by university officials with the help of volunteer organisations at the camp. To qualify for the programme, applicants were req International News 24/7 ...
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