Children in Daraa suffer in overcrowded classes
When the opposition controlled Daraa in southern Syria, several organizations found innovative ways to continue teaching children, but after the regime took control, all these projects were suspended and children are forced to attend dilapidated and overcrowded schools.
DARAA, Syria — An entire generation of Syrian students has not attended school regularly since the war broke out in 2011, as educational facilities in areas outside regime control in southern Syria have been targeted by regime and Russian airstrikes.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education has neglected opposition-controlled areas. Hundreds of thousands of students have thus found themselves displaced or settling in informal camps, in addition to the psychological and physical damage they have suffered.
Thousands of Syrians returned from the Gulf and neighboring countries to Daraa during the summer holidays after an absence of over eight years, to restore their homes and register their children in Syrian schools and universities.
Muhammad Hariri, a school director in Daraa, told Al-Monitor why the educational process has suffered a setback.
