Children of Syria: Schooling a lost generation

Children who have fled Syria to Lebanon have witnessed and experienced things no child should.

Each morning at 8am, Ahmed stirs from his blanket on the soil and walks about a mile to the morning shift. Sometimes his two sisters go with him. More children soon join him from nearby potato fields and tents, on their way to the first of the day’s three school sessions. A second wave of small children carrying oversized blue school bags appears at noon, and another in the late afternoon.