Children of migrants play with a smartphone in a temporary refugee shelter inside a hall of Berlin's fairground 'Messe Berlin', Germany, December 8, 2015. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
OSLO: Norway launched a competition to develop a smartphone app to help Syrian children who are unable to attend school because of the war build basic Arabic literacy skills, the foreign minister said.
“We know that Syrian parents are extremely concerned about their children’s learning and well-being. That’s why we want to develop this game-based learning tool, which can be used wherever the children are,” the Norwegian Minister for Foreign Affairs Borge Brende said.
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