this is the Education Report.Cameroon has launched an $8 million emergency programto help students displaced by Boko Haram militants.The government last month announced plansto build classrooms and housing for 70,000 students.The children cannot attend their own schoolsbecause of militant attacks along the border with Nigeria.The classrooms will be in safer parts of Cameroon,far from the border area.Midjiyawa Bakari is the governorof the Far North region of Cameroon.He told reporters that Boko Haram fightersdestroyed 170 schools along the border with Nigeria.The students from that area fled to other areas of Cameroon.Mr. Bakari said schools in safer placescan no longer provide for the increasing numbers of students.The governor has given out contractsto build classrooms, dormitories and latrines.Mr. Bakari said he offered the work to businessmen he trusts.He wants them to complete the projects in 40 daysso the children can go back to school.Businessman Ngeh Foncha was askedto supply electricity to the schools.He said the government has helped speed up the workby reducing the time it takes to get administrative approval.Mr. Foncha said his crews plannedto bring electricity cables and poles to building sites.He expected 80 percent of the workto be completed within three weeks.The new school term is to begin in the second half of April.The government has sent the military to the sites.Ibrahim Joel Mahamat is the local delegate responsiblefor basic education in the Far North region.He said nearly half of the displaced childrenare primary school students.An estimated 33,000 children have been displacedfrom primary schools on Cameroon's northern border with Nigeria.Mr. Mahamat says he thinks that soon these boys and girlswill have good classrooms so they can study in safer localities.The school children are among the 100,000 peoplewho had to leave their homessince Boko Haram became active in Cameroon.The militant group is seeking to set up an Islamic state..