Tanak schools in the land of knowledge and light!

The entrances to the Sabra Palestinian refugee camp are many, all ending in dark corridors and narrow alleys that, as a result of the first winter, have turned into pools of raw water. In a geographical area of ​​the camp, behind the Sports City, inhabited by thousands of displaced Syrians, who poured out their misery on the misery of its Palestinian and Lebanese residents, there is no school that attracts the children of these people. Only the educational center affiliated with the “Tahadi Association”, which is located in an alley behind “Al-Madina”, strives to provide education to children who were not previously introduced to school, although some of them were over 12 years.

The center, sponsored by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), attracts mainly Syrian students and some Lebanese. The worsening of the economic crisis has led, this year, to a significant increase in demand from the center of the association, beyond its absorption capacity. Due to the Corona pandemic, in order to reduce the number of students in classes to preserve social distancing, administrators were forced to adopt “homeschooling”, if it is true that the places where they gather to study they should be called “homes.”
Due to the intensity of the requests that exceeded expectations, the association decided to rehabilitate Syrian teachers and train them to deliver an educational program in their homes to children between 10 and 12 years old, who had dropped out of school, or did not enter school. school first. The program aims to eradicate illiteracy among children whose parents were “displaced with the outbreak of the Syrian crisis and were still babies. Instead of spending their time on the street or working, this program was the least available to protect them and at least teach them to read ”, according to the president of the association, Nadia El-Khoury. Al-Khoury points out that there are 64 children who learn in this way, while there are more than 100 on the waiting list, most are Syrians and with them Lebanese, all of whom did not know the school before, and are receiving their education for the first time Once in the homes of four unaccompanied teachers, each of whom received training on the program. Each of them teaches 16 children in two shifts, between eight thirty and ten thirty in the morning, and between eleven and one in the afternoon, during which the students receive alphabet lessons and some introductions to mathematics in addition to addition and subtraction.
Khatoon, one of the teachers, from the Aleppo countryside, has a high school diploma. She applied for the program to support her family and opened her house near the center of the association to educate these children, she receives a salary from the association that is barely enough to pay the rent for the house and cover basic needs. The exposed sides covered with tin sheets were hollowed out and equipped with a “mat” on which the children sat, and in front of each of them was a table provided by the association with a board and books. “Children don’t know about the pen clamp, at least we will connect with them to read it in a complete sentence,” says Khatun, relieving the weight of the lack of heat and the children with light clothing. “They don’t like it when they want to have a room inside the house because they don’t have one”, pointing out that their house is still better than the houses of their classmates who received the rest of the children.

Al-Tarbiah did not respond to multiple correspondence from the Ghobeiry municipality to rehabilitate a suitable place to study

The “disciples” are seated separately, each with a muzzle. In the morning class, Yamen (10 years old) from Deir Ezzor, who knows nothing about her except what he hears from his family, sits attentive to the teacher’s explanation and raises his finger to answer each question. He says that he is “happy to learn, draw and paint instead of the street in the street.” The same “happiness” overwhelms Nadia (12 years old) because “my dream is to write my name and read the posters.”
The mayor of Ghobeiry, Maan al-Khalil, confirmed that some of these students are “Lebanese, from father to grandfather.” And putting the matter in the custody of the Ministry of Education, in a state that recognized compulsory education, “perhaps it responds to the many books that the municipality has sent since the time of Minister Akram Shuhayeb, the most recent of which was last month. August to Minister Tariq Al-Majzoub to approve the restoration of an old three-story school building near the center, located in a real estate. Within the municipality, under the supervision of the ministry and donor associations, so that students can learn in humane conditions in an area that lacks a school.

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