World Vision released a report on Thursday that revealed that 67 per cent of displaced children in southern Syria suffer violence at school and that nine in ten children were getting no support in school to deal with their emotional trauma and social isolation.
Wynn Flaten, World Vision’s Syria Crisis response director told Premier: “One of the other things we found when they get to school, many of the teachers have been in the same situations they have. Teachers face temptation to use violence in the classroom.”
The international children’s charity asked more than 400 displaced children in southern Syria about their daily struggles and hardships in February. Nearly seven in ten children reported psychologically damaging experiences of physical and verbal abuse and aggression at school.
The charity’s report Beyond Survival found the majority of the 11-17 year old children surveyed were surviving under severe stress. Pressure-factors included violence at school, domestic abuse, criminal acts and other factors.
The survey also found children are struggling with poverty, malnutrition, displacement and overcrowded housing.
Akkar province in northern Lebanon is now home to hundreds of thousands of Syrian families who fled the ongoing clashes. World Vision has built an early childhood education centre there, hosting…
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