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.
In a report released on Monday, the education campaign A World at School warns that failure to increase financial support to Syrian refugee children will create a “lost generation”.
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