How Yazidi At School started
Our journey began with a simple belief: that displacement should not mean the end of education. We started on the ground, in the heart of the community we serve.
Mam Rashan Camp
The co-founders of Yazidi At School launched the first physical English language courses inside the Mam Rashan IDP camp in Kurdistan, bringing teaching directly to the students who needed it.
Going digital
Recognising the need for wider access and greater safety, we transitioned all classes to an online format. This allowed us to recruit professional teachers from all over the world, and to reach students wherever they had moved to.
First full year online
We completed our first full academic year as a fully online school, with a growing faculty of volunteer teachers across Europe, the Americas and the Middle East. Nine devices were delivered to students that year.
Professionalisation
A year of growth and consolidation, with 292 students studying with us. We formalised our certificate standards, expanded the teaching team, and delivered 30 devices to students — more than three times the previous year.
Our largest year
478 students enrolled — about 60% more than 2025 — with 14 classes running in the autumn term alone. We roughly doubled the teaching team to 16 active teachers and delivered 61 devices: more than 2024 and 2025 combined.
The evolution of the school
When Yazidi At School was founded, the goal was to address the massive educational gap caused by the 2014 genocide. Many of our students are young adults who had their schooling violently interrupted over a decade ago.
We realised that English proficiency was the most requested skill, serving as a gateway to international communication and higher education.
By moving our campus online, we removed the physical and geographical barriers that often stop displaced students from learning. Today we focus on a curriculum of acquisition and implicit learning, so that every hour spent in our virtual classroom is an investment in a student's dignity and career prospects.
Be part of our next chapter
Yazidi At School is more than a school. It is a community of resilient survivors and global volunteers.