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Our reporters examine how efforts to integrate refugee children into school systems are playing out in four different countries for a joint Women & Girls and Refugees Deeply series. The stories from Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece look at how authorities, teachers and families are trying to overcome the barriers to learning in exile and the major obstacles that remain.
Greece pledged to help all refugee and migrant children in the country attend schools, but the E.U.-funded program has been mired in delays. Yiannis Baboulias reports from Athens on the efforts of a migrant women’s network to give refugee girls access to education.
Since their tough start in Istanbul, Sabah and Mayas, two sisters from Aleppo, have mastered Turkish and are now thriving at school. But many Syrian refugee children feel lost in Turkey’s education system – if they make it to class at all.
Jordan has committed to education for all, but some Syrian refugees still struggle in the country’s public school system. As part of our series on the education crisis among Syrian refugees, we meet Judy, who has been to four schools in the past four years.
In the first of our in-depth reports on the education crisis for Syrian refugees, Abby Sewell reports from Lebanon on the challenges faced by Syrian siblings in a country with the highest per capita number of refugees in the world.
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