Published : 31-05-2022
Over 300 Palestinian refugee students sheltered in AlNeirab Camp, in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, showed up at examination centres to sit for the baccalaureate exams. Another 500 students are also sitting for 9th grade exams.
In 2021, nearly 1,500 students from AlNeirab Camp had taken their exams.
Reports of violence and school-drop outs have increasingly emerged in AlNeirab Camp for Palestinian refugees.
Several school boys left their academic institutions to join armed militias. At the same time, dozens of Palestinian teaching staff members have been arrested and sent to jail.
AGPS continues to appeal to the Palestine Liberation Organization and UNRWA, among all concerned 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’s displacement camps.
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 have left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.
Over 300 Palestinian refugee students sheltered in AlNeirab Camp, in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, showed up at examination centres to sit for the baccalaureate exams. Another 500 students are also sitting for 9th grade exams.
In 2021, nearly 1,500 students from AlNeirab Camp had taken their exams.
Reports of violence and school-drop outs have increasingly emerged in AlNeirab Camp for Palestinian refugees.
Several school boys left their academic institutions to join armed militias. At the same time, dozens of Palestinian teaching staff members have been arrested and sent to jail.
AGPS continues to appeal to the Palestine Liberation Organization and UNRWA, among all concerned 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’s displacement camps.
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 have left schools to help feeding their impoverished families in unemployment-stricken refugee camps.
