Published : 06-04-2022
Tunisia’s Emergency Chief Mahdi Ben Ammar and UNRWA education chief in Syria paid a visit to the displacement camps of AlNeirab and Hindarat, in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo.
The visit aims to inspect refugees’ access to education services and the situation of UNRWA schools in the camps.
AGPS has kept record of a sharp nosepe in access to education for Palestinians sheltered in displacement camps and communities across war-torn Syria. Most of UNRWA schools have been destroyed or put out of operation. Other educational facilities have been turned into prisons or field hospitals, imperiling Palestinians’ academic careers.
The situation is worse for displaced Palestinian families taking shelter north of Syria. Classrooms established in the area are made up of poorly equipped tents that are not fit to study in and risk to fall into pieces in the winter season. Neither professional training staff nor proper furniture are available at the schools.
AGPS continues to appeal to the Palestine Liberation Organization and UNRWA, among all concerned international institutions, to urgently step in and work on reconstructing destroyed schools, providing civilians with the needed psycho-physical protection, and boosting children’s access to education in Syria.
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.
Eleven years after demonstrations started in Syria, the majority of Palestinian refugees sheltered in the war-torn country have been grappling with an abject humanitarian situation.
UN data indicates that over half of the Palestine refugees in the country have been displaced at least once because of the brutal conflict that ensued, including 120,000 who have sought safety in neighbouring countries, mainly Lebanon and Jordan, and beyond.
438,000 Palestine refugees remain in the country – 91 per cent of whom live in absolute poverty -and who have been among those worst affected by the conflict.
Over 80% of PRS live in extreme poverty and rely on humanitarian assistance as their main source of income. 86% of PRS households are reported to be in debt.
Tunisia’s Emergency Chief Mahdi Ben Ammar and UNRWA education chief in Syria paid a visit to the displacement camps of AlNeirab and Hindarat, in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo.
The visit aims to inspect refugees’ access to education services and the situation of UNRWA schools in the camps.
AGPS has kept record of a sharp nosepe in access to education for Palestinians sheltered in displacement camps and communities across war-torn Syria. Most of UNRWA schools have been destroyed or put out of operation. Other educational facilities have been turned into prisons or field hospitals, imperiling Palestinians’ academic careers.
The situation is worse for displaced Palestinian families taking shelter north of Syria. Classrooms established in the area are made up of poorly equipped tents that are not fit to study in and risk to fall into pieces in the winter season. Neither professional training staff nor proper furniture are available at the schools.
AGPS continues to appeal to the Palestine Liberation Organization and UNRWA, among all concerned international institutions, to urgently step in and work on reconstructing destroyed schools, providing civilians with the needed psycho-physical protection, and boosting children’s access to education in Syria.
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.
Eleven years after demonstrations started in Syria, the majority of Palestinian refugees sheltered in the war-torn country have been grappling with an abject humanitarian situation.
UN data indicates that over half of the Palestine refugees in the country have been displaced at least once because of the brutal conflict that ensued, including 120,000 who have sought safety in neighbouring countries, mainly Lebanon and Jordan, and beyond.
438,000 Palestine refugees remain in the country – 91 per cent of whom live in absolute poverty -and who have been among those worst affected by the conflict.
Over 80% of PRS live in extreme poverty and rely on humanitarian assistance as their main source of income. 86% of PRS households are reported to be in debt.
