Published : 04-03-2021
Palestinian refugees sheltered in AlHusainiya camp, in Syria’s Rif Dimashq province, said their children’s school grades have gone down gradually over time due to economic hardship and the ensuing trauma inflicted by the ten-year warfare.
Over recent years, AGPS has kept record of a sharp nosepe in access to education for Palestinians sheltered in AlHusainiya refugee camp, among other displacement camps set up across the war-torn country.
A number of local schools face overcrowding, with over 50 students often crammed in a single classroom.
Schoolchildren have also been subjected to bullying and psycho-physical violence by a number of teaching staff.
At times, students are compelled to walk for kilometers to attend classes or sit for exams due to the transportation crisis. The situation has been exacerbated by the chronic power blackouts.
UNRWA installations in the camp include two double-shift schools and one afternoon-shift school in a government school.
Upon more than one occasion, UNRWA has raised alarm bells over the striking upsurge in the rate of school dropouts among the Palestinians of Syria, several among whom left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.
Several UNRWA facilities were destroyed in the Syrian warfare and others have gone out of operation, including two clinics, a vocational training center, a youth development center, and 28 schools, out of 112 UNRWA schools in Syria. Other education facilities have been turned into prisons or field hospitals, imperiling Palestinians’ academic careers.
Palestinian refugees sheltered in AlHusainiya camp, in Syria’s Rif Dimashq province, said their children’s school grades have gone down gradually over time due to economic hardship and the ensuing trauma inflicted by the ten-year warfare.
Over recent years, AGPS has kept record of a sharp nosepe in access to education for Palestinians sheltered in AlHusainiya refugee camp, among other displacement camps set up across the war-torn country.
A number of local schools face overcrowding, with over 50 students often crammed in a single classroom.
Schoolchildren have also been subjected to bullying and psycho-physical violence by a number of teaching staff.
At times, students are compelled to walk for kilometers to attend classes or sit for exams due to the transportation crisis. The situation has been exacerbated by the chronic power blackouts.
UNRWA installations in the camp include two double-shift schools and one afternoon-shift school in a government school.
Upon more than one occasion, UNRWA has raised alarm bells over the striking upsurge in the rate of school dropouts among the Palestinians of Syria, several among whom left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.
Several UNRWA facilities were destroyed in the Syrian warfare and others have gone out of operation, including two clinics, a vocational training center, a youth development center, and 28 schools, out of 112 UNRWA schools in Syria. Other education facilities have been turned into prisons or field hospitals, imperiling Palestinians’ academic careers.
