Syrian Education Ministry Intensifies Response Plan Measures for Displaced Students by so-called FSA

Director of Planning Department at the Education Ministry, Huda Sheikh al-Shabab, stressed that most of the families who were displaced due to the armed terrorist groups’ practices were provided shelter in schools in the various provinces.

Speaking at a workshop organized on Tuesday in cooperation between the People’s Assembly and the United Nations Fund for Population (UNFPA) under the title ‘population and development under current circumstances’, Sheikh al-Shabab referred to the intensified measures taken in the context of a response plan set up by the Ministry to meet the needs of the affected students.

She explained that students of various grades, who were left with no official documents, have been tested and enrolled in suitable grade classes, indicating the distribution of thousands of school bags to students within the framework of the plan.

The Director stressed that the Ministry has established around 103 entertainment school clubs which targeted students in the provinces of Daraa, Damascus Countryside, Lattakia and Tartous, and is working on applying this activity in the rest of the provinces to reach 300 clubs.

Scores of prefabricated class rooms, Sheikh al-Shabab added, were set up in schools, mostly in Damascus, Tartous and Quneitra, which are crowded with students coming from affected areas to contribute to compensating missing lessons.

She also pointed out to the rehabilitation of 117 schools which were put back into service in the provinces of Damascus, Damascus Countryside, Homs, Daraa and Hasaka.

She highlighted the Ministry’s efforts in terms of organizing workshops for administrative and teaching cadres to train them on psychological support and first aid.