News Syria Education: Disease and dirty water: residents deplore life in Syria camp
"When she convulses, she loses consciousness and foam comes out of her mouth," she told AFP at the Kurdish-run camp in northeast Syria. Nasser and her daughter Fatima are among tens of thousands of people who were trucked into Al-Hol earlier this year from the eastern Syria village of Baghouz
News Syria Education: Turkey must do more to integrate Syrian refugees
The Turkish government has undeniably taken concrete measures to integrate Syrian refugees. Its temporary education centres have successfully bridged the gap between the Arabic and Turkish school ...
News Syria Education: Lebanon ups pressure on Syrian refugees to return
BEIRUT: In a bustling district of the Lebanese capital, a government inspector issues a fine to the manager of a popular restaurant for hiring 17 Syrian refugees without work permits. In a country brimming with foreign workers, the labor ministry is clamping down on businesses employing foreigners without the required papers. But activists have condemned the crackdown, saying
News Syria Education: Turkey has deported hundreds of Syrian migrants, advocates and refugees say
Anti-Syrian sentiment spiked during the recent election campaign in Turkey, in which many voters criticized Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, or AKP, for accommodating the refugees and ...
News Syria Education: Syrian Secret Library Spins Tale of Hope in Chaos
Amid the bombing campaign between the Syrian regime and rebel forces in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, a small group of young students tried to bring normalcy to the chaos by creating a secret library deep underneath a bullet-ridden building. The library was built to create a safe shelter for residents to gather and read. For months, Mike Thomson, a British-based journalist, documented the students' efforts in his book "Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege."
News Syria Education: Syrian Refugees in Turkey Need Better Access to Formal Jobs
A survey conducted by the Turkish Red Crescent in 2018 showed that 20.7% of the Syrian workers in education are employed in irregular jobs, while this rate increased to 92% for those Syrians employed ...
News Syria Education: North Korea, Syria, Myanmar defend China's actions in Xinjiang
The Thursday letter was the first major collective international challenge to China's ongoing policy in its far western border region, where experts estimate up to 2 million people have been detained ...
News Syria Education: UNHCR on aid to Syria: what’s important is to deliver
The Guardian reported that Al Bustan Association received $268,000 in 2015 from the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund – UNICEF –) to provide education and basic services in regime ...
News Syria Education: South Bend-area doctors provide medical care to Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Rima Abu-Hamdan started a charitable organization in 2016 called Health and Education Advancing Life (HEAL ... and Kletzing was on board as soon as Abu-Hamdan told him about the Syrian mission trips. ...
News Syria Education: Syrian activists say bombing of rebel area killed 5 people
The area stands in Syrian President Bashar Assad's way as ... postponed in many parts of the rebel-held enclave, affecting the education of 400,000 students living there, it said. ...
News Syria Education: Turkish university to offer education in northern Syria
Following Turkish army operations clearing areas in northern Syria from terrorists, a university in a Turkish border region is set to offer education in the liberated areas, the university rector told ...
News Syria Education: Center in Syria Seeks to Deradicalize IS Teens
A child rehabilitation center in the Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syria is hosting dozens of Islamic State (IS) child recruits in an effort to reform them back to normalcy. Horie Center for Child ...
