children and education
©UNHCR/Haidar Darwish
“You must learn and study to have your place in society and to have knowledge about everything because we will need to rebuild Syria one day,” he said, encouraging other refugee children to enroll in school.
There are more than 380,000 refugee children between the ages of five and 17 registered with UNHCR in Lebanon. It is estimated that less than 50 per cent of primary school-age children have access to public primary schools and less than four per cent of adolescents have access to public secondary schools. Very few go to university.
Although enrollment through is free in
Lebanese public schools for refugees— it is generously supported by donors, including
UNHCR—some
families are deterred from sending their children to school. This can be due to language difficulties (Lebanese schools teach in Arabic, English and French);
the quality of the education;
violence in the schools; and the cost of learning materials.
In
their
efforts
to
accommodate
refugee children, Lebanese schools have opened a second shift in the afternoons. Schools provide classes in Arabic, French, math, science, civil society and geography.
In the 2016-17
school year, 330 schools will run the double-shift system.
Undeterred by the sheer numbers, the Lebanese Government
recently
committed itself to getting all children between five and 17 an education by the end of 2021. Students such as Mohammad receive
the same
level of education as their Lebanese peers and are awarded Lebanese public school diplomas, ensuring their education is recognized.
“I MISS MY SCHOOL,” NAWFAL SAID. “I NEVER MISSED A DAY OF SCHOOL IN SYRIA. I MISS MY BOOKS THE MOST. I MISS READING.”
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