NGO renovates schools ruined by ISIS in Syria’s Hasakah
SHADDADI, Syria (North Press) – Muhannad al-Azzawi, head of School Maintenance Committee at Shaddadi Educational Complex, said on Wednesday that a civil organization is renovating a number of schools that were destroyed by Islamic State organization (ISIS), south of Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria.
Between 2013 and 2016, eight schools were destroyed in the town of Shaddad and its countryside, while the civilian organization, Save the Children, targets 7 schools, deployed in the southern and northern neighborhoods, according to al-Azzawi.
Al-Azzawi pointed out that the organization worked to repair toilets, install solar panels, and dig wells within the schools.
Ten solar panels were installed in each school to operate a well and equip toilets to suit people with special needs as well, and not to mention the process of renovating some destroyed yards, according to the official.
In April 2021, Schools Management Committee of Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) worked, supported by a French NGO, to restore only the school of the northern neighborhood.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the SDF defeated ISIS militarily there.
The number of students in Shaddadi and its countryside is 13.000 distributed to 128 schools, according to the Schools’ management.