Syria conflict keeps 2.8 million children out of school


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Sep 2014

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The 3-1/2-year-old conflict in Syria is preventing 2.8 million children from getting an education and has destroyed or damaged more than 3,400 schools, an international children's charity said on Thursday.

Overall enrolment in Syrian schools has halved from almost 100 percent since the crisis started, Save the Children said, adding that Syria now had the second worst rate of school attendance in the world.

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