​Syria's lost generation: report counts cost of collapse in education system

Save the Children says school enrolment has fallen to 50% and is much lower in areas worst affected by conflict; urgent international action is needed 

Karim has not been to school in over two years. Instead he chops wood to help his family survive.

Kareem Shaheen in Beirut-Monday 30 March 2015

“I can’t go to school as my family needs to eat so I work with my father and my brother instead,” the 11-year-old, who lives in a camp in northern Syria near the Turkish border, told human rights workers. “The axe is very heavy.”

Syria's Lost Generation Report Counts Cost of Collapse in Education System by Thavam Ratna