Published : 12-02-2022
Representatives of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) visited on February 02, 2022 schools run by the Syrian Ministry of Education in Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus.
The move falls in line with NRC’s intent to assess the damage wrought on educational facilities and help with the reconstruction of partially-damaged schools.
In October 2021, the NRC toured 12 schools run by the Syrian government and UNRWA in Yarmouk Camp. However, none of these premises have been reconstructed so far.
Palestinian refugee schoolchildren and students continue to struggle with the devastating impact of the eleven-year warfare.
Available data by UNRWA indicates that 32 UNRWA facilities have been reduced to rubble in Yarmouk Camp alone, including 16 schools, in the Syrian conflict.
Several other 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.
Upon more than one occasion, the UN has raised alarm bells over the striking upsurge in the rate of school dropouts among the Palestinians of Syria, several among whom have left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.
Dozens of Palestinian students, schoolchildren, and teaching staff have been killed or forcibly disappeared in war-ravaged Syria.
Representatives of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) visited on February 02, 2022 schools run by the Syrian Ministry of Education in Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees, south of Damascus.
The move falls in line with NRC’s intent to assess the damage wrought on educational facilities and help with the reconstruction of partially-damaged schools.
In October 2021, the NRC toured 12 schools run by the Syrian government and UNRWA in Yarmouk Camp. However, none of these premises have been reconstructed so far.
Palestinian refugee schoolchildren and students continue to struggle with the devastating impact of the eleven-year warfare.
Available data by UNRWA indicates that 32 UNRWA facilities have been reduced to rubble in Yarmouk Camp alone, including 16 schools, in the Syrian conflict.
Several other 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.
Upon more than one occasion, the UN has raised alarm bells over the striking upsurge in the rate of school dropouts among the Palestinians of Syria, several among whom have left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.
Dozens of Palestinian students, schoolchildren, and teaching staff have been killed or forcibly disappeared in war-ravaged Syria.
