The war going on within Syria has
caused the displacement of many and this has also caused deaths among 110,000
Syrians. The article talks about the
numerous amounts of people fleeing the area and the numbers are in the
millions. Not only have children lost
the home in which they live but they have lost their childhoods and sacrificed better
education because of the war. Lebanon is
where many Syrians are fleeing to, there is a refugee camp set up there. The article goes on to describe a story about
a girl living within the camp named Batool who used to go to school back in
Syria, she had great dreams of becoming a teacher and now she no longer attends
school in Lebanon. Most children living
in refugee camps spend their time working in fields in order to earn money for
their families, the women and children do work in the field picking beans for
money. The money they earn picking beans in the field is minimal and barely
enough for one person to get by with and families living here may only have
this as a source of income. The father
of Batool knows the importance of education and only wants the best for his children
and he finds it difficult to have his children working in the fields instead of
getting an education. The number of children
living in Lebanon is somewhere around half a million and children as young as
seven are working in the fields. A local charity is helping the UN to give
education to these children by creating make shift schools in which there are
22 set up in the area. The issue is many of those children have to work and go
to school, but now are acquiring some education. The article goes on to state
that the future of the Syrian Refugee children is uncertain.
How is
the war creating social problems for Syria? As we can see from the article it
is displacing many people stripping them away from being educated. The area in
which many have been displaced is poor and they must work in fields in order to
survive. The children there aren’t getting educated and even with the new
schools created by the UN, we aren’t positive they are being educated to high
standards because of funding. The lives
that many of the children could have achieved living in Syria were crushed by
the war, Batool may have had a chance of becoming a teacher now that dream may
very well be crushed. The war is
creating lower levels of education and Syria because of the war cannot fix
problems with education or advance. Also, we don’t know if the people will ever
have a chance to return back to Syria to complete their education. What happens
to their people, do they continue living a poor lifestyle because conditions
back home are unsafe? Will the children be
able to rise out of poverty and create better lives elsewhere? The answer to
this is only if the education they receive is enough to allow them to advance.
They will need necessary funding to send these children through school.
Name: Sarah Vestrat
Date: 10/24/2013
Time: 5:12 PM
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