'I study in a cave' - Going to school in Syria


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  • Monday, 27 Jun 2016

A volunteer teacher teaches inside a mobile educational caravan for children who do not have access to schools on the outskirts of the Syrian rebel-held town of Saraqib, Idlib province March 10, 2016. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

TRAMLA/DOUMA, Syria (Reuters) - Syrian student Ali Khaled Stouf has to walk down several steps into a hole in the ground to get inside his school -- a cave.

There for four hours each morning, he studies subjects like Arabic, English, maths and religion, sitting on a rug with dozens of children in the underground space in Tramla, an opposition-held village in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.

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