Education Report - UNICEF Appeals for Help for Syrian Schoolchildren

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United Nations Children's Fund is appealing to international donors help provide education money for Syrian schoolchildren. Safe places learn, teachers and supplies are all lacking, and almost million young Syrian students have dropped out of schoolUNICEF about 40 percent of students from grades one to across the nation no longer attend formal classes. UNICEF Marixie Mercado says about half of those children are refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. In the city of Aleppo, for example, only six percent of of school age are in classrooms. But the school there and in other locations began as planned on 15th. Talk of a military strike by the United had caused uncertainty about starting classes. But, schools opened a strike appeared less likely. Still, many children who walked to school are now taken there by their . And other families have simply left the country. Lebanon is trying to help about 550,000 school-age Syrian refugee . UNICEF says the Lebanese public education system can take of 300,000 Lebanese children. UNICEF is establishing schools for children in busesIn Jordan, UNICEF says about two-thirds of Syrian school-age children are not in school. In Iraq, says nine out of 10 Syrian refugee children are of school. Inside Syria, Ms Mercado says, the educational has been torn apart. Both UNICEF and the Syrian say about 3,000 schools have been damaged or destroyed. VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Villarreal.

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