Idlib Education Director: Supporting the Qatari Development Fund will ensure the continuation of education in the liberated areas
The State of Qatar and the United Kingdom signed a memorandum of understanding with the aim of supporting the education of about 130,000 children in northwestern Syria, while meeting their comprehensive needs, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the Syrian revolution.
Director of Idlib Free Education, Hassan Shawa, to Fresh, “The entry of the Qatari Development Fund to the education file contributed to securing education for about 130,000 students in northern Syria, and ensuring the stability and continuity of education for the second semester of this year.”
Al-Shawa continues, “We see this as a great positive for the Qatari Development Fund to maintain the continuity of education in the second cycle, which has been lacking support for more than two years about 6 thousand volunteer teachers provide their services to nearly 180,000 students, which threatens to deprive them of These students have the right to education. ”
“Such projects contribute to the return of a large number of students who have dropped out of school, to ensure the continuation of education, reduce the illiteracy rate, and increase the number of enrolled students,” Al Shawa explains.
After the recent attacks of the Assad regime forces on the southern countryside of Idlib, the dropout rate reached 40% of all children of school age, according to Al Shawa.
The liberated areas in northwestern Syria suffer from the lack of schools and the interruption of support to the education sector, after the forced displacement campaigns that took place, as a result of the Assad regime and its ally Russia destroying cities and towns in the southern countryside of Idlib.
