A child's passport to dignity

About half of schools in Syria, North east  Nigeria, Palestinian territories, Lebanon and Jordan have been disrupted by conflict. These children are then forced to stay are home or are refugees with little or no access to schools. We they continue in this vicious-cycle ? We have to stand up for them. 

More than 300 schools run by the United Nation have been attacked, damaged or rendered inoperable by armed conflict and violence in the Middle East over the past five years, disrupting the education of thousands of children, a new report says.

In Syria, more than half of schools run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, have ceased to function due to damage, access restrictions or the need to use the premises as shelters for displaced families.

More than 400 qualified teachers have left the country, forcing UNRWA to hire untrained teachers, the report says. Most schools have been looted of equipment and learning materials.

Altogether, almost half of UNRWA’s 700 schools in Syria, Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Jordan have been badly disrupted by conflict.