Published : 15-01-2023
Palestinian and Syrian schoolchildren and students in the northern Syria refugee camps of Hindarat and AlNeirab have been severely affected by the power crisis rocking the area.
Academic output has seen a remarkable deterioration as students revise for exams on candle light.
Acute shortage in fuel along with price inflation have made life unbearable in the area for schoolchildren and parents alike.
Overcrowded classrooms, the lack of teaching staff (many of them have been arrested and/or tortured), along with the absence of school furniture and educational aids have added bad to worse.
Several schoolchildren have dropped out of school due to long shifts, which last for over nine hours daily in an area where the conflict has a heavy toll on students’ intellectual output and psychological wellbeing.
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 and Syrian schoolchildren and students in the northern Syria refugee camps of Hindarat and AlNeirab have been severely affected by the power crisis rocking the area.
Academic output has seen a remarkable deterioration as students revise for exams on candle light.
Acute shortage in fuel along with price inflation have made life unbearable in the area for schoolchildren and parents alike.
Overcrowded classrooms, the lack of teaching staff (many of them have been arrested and/or tortured), along with the absence of school furniture and educational aids have added bad to worse.
Several schoolchildren have dropped out of school due to long shifts, which last for over nine hours daily in an area where the conflict has a heavy toll on students’ intellectual output and psychological wellbeing.
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.
