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Now it's time to make a difference for Syria's children
More than a million children have been driven into exile by the Middle East's most savage conflict. Half are in Lebanon, including 400,000 of school age. A new initiative to provide them with emergency education could transform their lives
The name of Unicef's education campaign for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon is Back to Learning. The original title, Back to School, had to be dropped because Lebanese schools simply do not have the capacity to allow all school-age Syrian kids to enrol; they now outnumber their Lebanese peers.
According to Unicef, 500,000 Syrian refugee children are now in Lebanon, of whom 400,000 are of school age. Currently, less than 20 per cent of those kids are in school. In refugee camps in Iraq, that figure is less than 10 per cent. Though Syria's civil war has been raging for more than two years, Egypt only approved enrolment in its schools for refugee children on Friday. The United Nations estimates that two million Syrian children will not receive any education this year, inside Syria or out.
The issue is being addressed at the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday in a new push for funding to get Syrian children back into the classroom, a campaign known as Education Without Borders. The plan involves keeping Lebanese schools open day and night, in a shift system, as well as hiring Syrian refugees as teachers, and providing school meals for those children affected by a conflict that shows little prospect of resolution.
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