UNICEF setting up a school in Barda-Rash camp in KRG for north-eastern Syria refugees

Kurdistan Region of Iraq – setting up a school for refugee children in Barda-Rash camp – North-Press

Duhok – North-Press Agency

UNICEF has built a school in Barda-Rash camp for refugees coming from north-eastern Syria into Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in an initiative to ​​return children from all educational levels into the school. As the school consists of 14 prefabricated classrooms, and a ​​2,000-square-meter yard, where thousands of Syrian-Kurdish refugees who fled the military attacks of Turkish military and its affiliated armed groups, have inhabited in.

According to those in charge of the school construction project, the construction will be completed before the New Year's Eve, making the school ready to receive students at the beginning of the second semester, next year.

The UNICEF relies on its own curriculum in schools, and the camp administration has not yet announced the type of curriculum to be taught in the new school, nor the numbers of children in the camp. It is expected that the capacity of the new school, consisting of 14 limited classrooms, does not accommodate all the children in the camp, compared to 1,780 refugee families, according to a previous statement of the High Commissioner for Refugees.

The Turkish military invasion in northern Syria resulted in the displacement of more than 350,000 people from their homes and towns, where about 12,000 people sought refuge in Kurdistan Region, as most of them settled in Barda-Rash camp.