Qatar Charity initiates project aimed at education for children in northern Syria
Qatar Charity had launched the “Support Non-Formal Education Activities (ALP Courses) for Out of School Children” project in northern Syria, in partnership with the Syria Cross-border Humanitarian Fund (SCHF) of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The project in Azaz and Al-Bab is expected to benefit around 1,200 students, both girls and boys, bringing back children to schools by applying the accelerated learning method (UNICEF’s “Curriculum B”) to reduce the education gap.
The children will then be able to attend formal education the following year after receiving the required education and care.
Qatar Charity’s intervention is qualitative in these areas where it restored the first two temporary education centers that provide non-formal education service (accelerated education) in the northern and eastern countryside of Aleppo.
Qatar Charity has appointed qualified academic personnel and trained them for ALP courses. It also distributed ALP textbooks, school bags, and stationery supplies to children, and provided psychological support and case management services, in addition to activating a referral mechanism to identify and respond to out of school children.
Furthermore, Qatar Charity also worked on providing operating costs, fuel for heating, and transportation for children with special needs.
The project received a great response from children in the areas of intervention where the registration was completed in just one week.
Qatar Charity has taken up this project in hopes of aiding the many Syrian children who have become unable to attend school due to the prolonged crisis in Syria.
Moreover, early marriages are one of the main causes of girls not being able to complete their education. As the humanitarian catastrophe continued, the gap between out of school children and those who are in school widened.
For more information on Qatar Charity and its initiatives, please visit qcharity.org
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