Educating Lebanon’s Syrian Refugees
Lebanon has launched an ambitious effort to provide 500,000 Syrian refugee children with an education. The program would be the largest humanitarian education effort ever mounted during an emergency, but so far the international community has failed to fund it adequately.
NEW YORK – On a recent visit to Beirut, I met a girl and a boy who struggled through a year filled with dread. Both of them are 14-year-old Syrian refugees in Lebanon, eager for an education, but unable to go to school.