Syria: Education Is Now Linked With Death

Thousands of schools have been bombed and damaged or destroyed in the ten years of crisis in Syria, and many teachers and pupils have been killed. One in three schools in Syria are now out of use, and more than a third of all children – 2.4 million – are still out of school.

The psychological scars of these attacks on schools continue to affect children’s learning and will be felt for generations to come unless children are supported to recover.

Islamic Relief’s education programme in northwest Syria works to repair and rebuild damaged infrastructure, pay teachers’ salaries, provide stationery and other supplies, and construct water and sanitation facilities.