UNICEF / REFUGEE EDUCATION

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today over 40 percent of Syrian refugee children across Turkey were missing out on an education despite a 50 percent increase in school enrollment since last June. FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:41
• Production Date: 19 January 2017
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR
• Subject Topical: EDUCATION; REFUGEES
• Geographic Subject: TURKEY
• MAMS Id: 1816927
• Parent Id: 1816927
• Alternate Title: unifeed170119c

Description

STORY: UNICEF / REFUGEE EDUCATION
TRT: 00:41
SOURCE: UNICEF / UNHCR / OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: FILE

Shotlist

FILE – UNHCR - OCTOBER 2013, AKCHALE, TURKEY

1. Various shots , refugees at border crossing

FILE – UNHCR - UNDATED, URFA, SURUÇ, TURKEY

2. Med shot, Syrian refugee child wrapped in blanket

FILE – UNHCR - 23 SEPTEMBER, 2014 YUMURTALÝK, SURUÇ, URFA, TURKEY

3. Med shot, Syrian refugee girl holding biscuits

FILE – UNHCR - 06 MAY 2016, IZMIR, TURKEY

4. Wide shot, Uday running up the street to dig into trash
5. Motion Image, Uday and Firaz digging into trash

FILE – OCHA - 26 MAY 2016, HATAY, TURKEY

6. Close up, girl

FILE – UNICEF - 10 NOVEMBER 2015, TURKEY

7. Wide shot, students running to the school with their UNICEF school backpacks.
8. Wide shot, students going out of the school

FILE - UNHCR - 23 SEPTEMBER, 2014 YUMURTALÝK, SURUÇ, URFA, TURKEY

9. Various shots, Syrian refugees waiting by border

Storyline

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today (19 Jan) over 40 percent of Syrian refugee children across Turkey were missing out on an education despite a 50 percent increase in school enrollment since last June.

While some 380,000 children remain out of school, UNICEF said this was the first time since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis that more children were attending class then were out with nearly half a million currently enrolled in schools across the country. Turkey is home to more than 1.2 million child refugees, making it the top child refugee hosting country in the world.

UNICEF said since 2013 it has helped build, renovate or refurnish nearly 400 schools, and trained some 20,000 Syrian volunteer teachers. The Fund said efforts were also under way to include Syrian children in a national programme that grants cash allowances to vulnerable families for them to send, and keep, their children in school.

Across the region, a total of 2.7 million Syrian children are not in school, most of them inside the war-torn country itself. UNICEF said some 300,000 children were trapped in 15 areas that are under siege across Syria while two million others were in areas that are largely cut off from essential humanitarian aid as a result of fighting and restrictions to access including 700,000 children in areas under ISIL control. UNICEF stressed that unless more resources were provided, there was still a very real risk of a ‘lost generation’ of Syrian children being deprived of the skills they will one day need to rebuild their country.