Buses bring education to Syrian refugee children in Bekaa camp

An international non-governmental organization recently provided Syrian refugee children in Lebanon’s Bekaa with several buses which have been equipped with necessary teaching facilities, so as to give them opportunities of learning.

These children just live in refugee camps which cannot withstand the coldness or heavy storms. But they do not care about their poor housing conditions. They just hope would come to their camps every Monday and Wednesday to bring them with knowledge and joy.

The Amel Association International promised that it would be devoted to providing buses, so as to help those children who dropped out of schools to make a living to get some schooling.

"We have three subjects, including English, Arabic and math. Besides, we also teach them social science through illustrations. We’ll teach them different subjects according to their ages," said Kholoud Abbas, a social worker with the Amel Association International.

Children will help teachers to prepare their classrooms. Frequent rains in the region compelled them to have classes in buses or temporary tents.

The buses will run to the four camps in Bekaa to bring "classrooms" for more than 400 children living in the camps there. Teachers are committed to teaching these refugee children who are suffering from wars.

"We are teaching them to write English letters now. Almost half of them can directly write letters by imitating what we write on the blackboard. Some others can not. For these children, we’ll teach them to write one stroke at a time. Children are very earnest in learning," said Samia Joha, an English teacher.

Those children value their mobile classrooms very much. They dream to be free from wars, go to schools which have walls, and play on lawns in the future.

"I will continue to learn until I master what I’m taught. And I want to be a doctor when I grow up," said Majd, a refugee child.

This report is based on Reuters.