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International charity Save the Children (StC) warned yesterday that nearly 3 million Syrian children were missing school due to the civil war.
The Britain-based group added that hundreds of thousands of displaced children were struggling to enrol for school in host countries as well as in Syria.
Syria’s conflict, now entering its fourth year, is denying a decent education to a generation of children, StC said, with consequences that may last for generations.
“It is absolutely shameful that the obligation to protect schools is not being respected in this conflict, endangering the lives of innocent children,” said StC regional director Roger Hearn.
StC estimated that 3,465 schools within Syria — or one-fifth of the country’s educational buildings — had either been destroyed, damaged or were being used for military purposes.
The UN has estimated that the civil war has killed at least 190,000 people and that nearly 3 million people have fled the country.
