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LOST GENERATION

26%

This is the increase in the number of refugee children of school age since 2000.

Source : UNESCO

48%

of refugee school-age children are out of school.

Source : UNHCR

MOHAMAD's LESSONS
LEARNT

As half of the syrian population, Mohamad had to flew his home. He escaped to Lebanon.

25%

people living in Lebanon are refugees.

Source : UNHCR

69%

of the refugees live under the poverty line.

Source : UNHCR

More than half of those syrian refugee children are out of school.

Source : UNHCR

1 million

syrian children where born in exile during the last 8 years.

Source : UNHCR

WHY EDUCATION FOR REFUGEES
IS IMPORTANT

EDUCATION IS NOT ONLY A HUMAN RIGHT, enshrined in the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child and the 1951 Refugee Convention.

"Education is the most powerful weapon", according to Nelson Mandela

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BIGGER THAN US: MOHAMAD / MARY DEBATE

He had to flee Syria and has enabled many refugee children to go to school. She is English and participates in rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea. Mohamad, 20 years old, and Mary, 24 years old, tell us what drives them to commit themselves to others.

Film clip "BIGGER THAN US": IN THE CLASSROOM WITH MELATI AND MOHAMAD

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