Published : 01-12-2022
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 conflict.
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 60 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.
At the same time, teachers have been facing dire conditions due to salary decreases at government-run schools, where a tutor receives no more than 70,000 Syrian pounds.
Hundreds of teaching staff and university graduates have sought other jobs to earn a living and meet their families’ basic needs. Scores of other teachers have been laid off by government or UN-run academic institutions. Dozens of instructors have also been forced to join pro-government battalions and serve in the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), affiliated with the Syrian regime.
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.
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.
The waves of forced deportation and mass displacement have led to overcrowding in schools and educational premises in most of the areas where Palestinians have sought refuge. As many as 70 students are often crammed in a single classroom, resulting in a poor academic output. The acute shortage in school furniture along with the families’ inability to shell out education fees have made the situation far worse. A student is expected to pay as much as 15 thousand SYP with the start of the scholastic year.
At least 35 quarrels broke out between schoolchildren last month, according to testimonies by teaching staff, parents, and eye-witnesses.
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.
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 conflict.
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 60 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.
At the same time, teachers have been facing dire conditions due to salary decreases at government-run schools, where a tutor receives no more than 70,000 Syrian pounds.
Hundreds of teaching staff and university graduates have sought other jobs to earn a living and meet their families’ basic needs. Scores of other teachers have been laid off by government or UN-run academic institutions. Dozens of instructors have also been forced to join pro-government battalions and serve in the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), affiliated with the Syrian regime.
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.
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.
The waves of forced deportation and mass displacement have led to overcrowding in schools and educational premises in most of the areas where Palestinians have sought refuge. As many as 70 students are often crammed in a single classroom, resulting in a poor academic output. The acute shortage in school furniture along with the families’ inability to shell out education fees have made the situation far worse. A student is expected to pay as much as 15 thousand SYP with the start of the scholastic year.
At least 35 quarrels broke out between schoolchildren last month, according to testimonies by teaching staff, parents, and eye-witnesses.
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.
