'I am desperate to go back to school, I love math and want to study civil engineering in the future. But when or how it will happen, God knows' - Assad regime attacks in Idlib disrupt education for thousands of children.
Many of those at risk in Idlib had fled Assad fighters or regime persecution from other areas of Syria, meaning they are having to uproot for the second time in their own country.“I was displaced from Ghouta last year and missed two years of school because of the bombing attacks,” Khalil Salem, a 17-year-old twelfth grade student toldSalem said that his education had been disrupted “dozens” of times since the war started, most recently after the current Assad offensive began.
“I’m desperate to go back to school, I love math and want to study civil engineering in the future. But when or how it will happen, God knows.” “Last week when one of the lessons was taking place, an airstike hit the village and we had to close the school,” he told. “We were reviewing topics for the exams that take place after Ramadan, but we can’t do that anymore.Badawi said he blamed the Assad regime and its ally, Russia, for the situation. Displaced Syrians gather in a field near a camp for displaced people in the village of Atme, in the rebel-held northern Idlib province on May 8, 2019.
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