In a squalid camp in eastern Lebanon, a school in a tent with a chalkboard and brightly coloured desks offers children who fled Syria’s war a chance of an education.
Thousands of child refugees are studying at dozens of makeshift schools across Lebanon, including 11-year-old Faruq Salkhadi, who dreams of becoming a doctor.
“It had been a year since I was last in school. My parents didn’t have the money to pay school fees here in Lebanon for my three sisters and me,” said Faruq, who is learning English, maths and Arabic.
His tent school in the Qaraun area of the eastern Bekaa valley is one of 47 learning centres supervised by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in the north and east of Lebanon.
Faruq’s family fled their hometown of Jassem, in the southern Syrian province of Daraa, after their two-storey house was bombed.
They are now among more than 1.1 million Syrian refugees living in neighbouring Lebanon.
Original article by Rita Daou
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