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AGPS Sounds Alarm over Poor Education Services in Syria’s Daraa Camp for Palestinian Refugees

Published : 12-03-2020

AGPS Sounds Alarm over Poor Education Services in Syria’s Daraa Camp for Palestinian Refugees

Dozens of Palestinian teaching staff members have been arrested and sent to jail.

In attempt to bring life back to normal, a number of activists helped establishing 14 classrooms from the 1st to the 9th grade in order to enable Palestinian children to pursue their studies.

Last month, UNRWA opened the Tabaria and AlSafsaf schools in Daraa camp. 525 students are enrolled at UNRWA-run schools in the area.

Prior to the conflict, back in 2010, six UNRWA schools had been operative in Daraa Camp, before they shut their doors as a result of the bloody shootouts.

A number of homes have been used as alternative schools, where dozens of students are often crammed into one single room that lacks equipment, ventilation and hygiene.

The war in Syria has had disastrous fallouts on civilians’ intellectual skills and academic performance, with hundreds of Palestine refugees dropping out of school over security concerns or following psychological breakdowns. A number of education facilities have also been turned into prisons or field hospitals, imperiling Palestinians’ academic careers.

Founded in 1950-1951, Daraa Camp is home to over 650 displaced Palestinian families. As many as 4,500 families used to take shelter in the camp prior to the outbreak of the conflict, in 2011.

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 Daraa.

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.

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/9826

Dozens of Palestinian teaching staff members have been arrested and sent to jail.

In attempt to bring life back to normal, a number of activists helped establishing 14 classrooms from the 1st to the 9th grade in order to enable Palestinian children to pursue their studies.

Last month, UNRWA opened the Tabaria and AlSafsaf schools in Daraa camp. 525 students are enrolled at UNRWA-run schools in the area.

Prior to the conflict, back in 2010, six UNRWA schools had been operative in Daraa Camp, before they shut their doors as a result of the bloody shootouts.

A number of homes have been used as alternative schools, where dozens of students are often crammed into one single room that lacks equipment, ventilation and hygiene.

The war in Syria has had disastrous fallouts on civilians’ intellectual skills and academic performance, with hundreds of Palestine refugees dropping out of school over security concerns or following psychological breakdowns. A number of education facilities have also been turned into prisons or field hospitals, imperiling Palestinians’ academic careers.

Founded in 1950-1951, Daraa Camp is home to over 650 displaced Palestinian families. As many as 4,500 families used to take shelter in the camp prior to the outbreak of the conflict, in 2011.

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 Daraa.

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.

Short URL : https://actionpal.org.uk/en/post/9826