{"id":1527,"date":"2013-09-11T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamlearner.net\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2013-09-14T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T12:06:45","slug":"education-without-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/education-without-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Without Borders: Syria&#8217;s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Malala-Painting.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1012\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"Malala Yousafzai\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1526\" src=\"http:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Malala-Painting-1012x1024.jpg\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 505px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Malala-Painting-1012x1024.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Malala-Painting-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Malala-Painting.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: center;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><strong>Malala Yousafzai &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Portrait by Jonathan Yeo<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The mission of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aworldatschool.org\/\">A World at School<\/a>&nbsp;is:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n<h2 style=\"line-height: 4.55rem; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 3.5rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; font-family: ITCLubalinGraphW01-Demi, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(42, 12, 49);\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">We:<\/span><br \/>\n\t<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.8em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style-type: none; color: rgb(42, 12, 49); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 21px;\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t\t\tmake noise for education, asking leaders to raise budgets, build schools, train teachers and improve learning &#8211; and we use&nbsp;<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;\">your&nbsp;<\/strong>voice to do this\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t\t\t<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;\">move governments and policy makers<\/strong>&nbsp;to action by providing them with concrete data and&nbsp;action plans, and by exposing them to the&nbsp;personal stories of the children caught in the education emergency\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t\t\t<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;\">champion the impact of the progress happening globally<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; and we find ways for you or your organisation to get directly involved\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t\t\tfollow the guidelines of the United Nations Secretary General&#39;s Global Education First Initiative to ensure that all girls and boys&nbsp;go to school, learn and become global citizens\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t\t\twill not stop until every young person is in school and learning\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In pursuit of their mission, they recently&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/s.bsd.net\/awas\/default\/page\/-\/EducationWithoutBorders_KevinWatkins_Report.pdf\">commissioned a report<\/a>&nbsp;from Kevin Watkins at the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.odi.org.uk\/\">Overseas Development Institute<\/a>&nbsp;on the plight of Syria&#39;s out-of-school children.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gordonandsarahbrown.com\/\">Gordon Brown<\/a>&nbsp;produced the foreword for the report, and he writes:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Soon, small unstable Lebanon will have absorbed 500,000 Syrian boys and girls. Already in just a few months, the refugees have grown in number to an astonishing 25% of Lebanon&#39;s child population. However, today, and the foreseeable future, there are school places for only a small fraction of them &#8211; just 30,000 children. If they suffer the typical exile of children in conflict, the rest could spend 10 years displaced and insecure in a foreign country.<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Watkins&#39; report sets out a practical plan to begin to deal with the problem for these Syrian children, and estimates that some $502m will be needed over three years to provide schooling (using Lebanon&#39;s schools on a multi-shift basis) and including transport and school meals. At the moment, as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gordonandsarahbrown.com\/2013\/09\/bringing-education-without-borders-to-syrian-children-3\/\">Sarah Brown indicates<\/a>, only around 30% of that figure is currently committed to the problem. However her husband, in his role as UN Education Envoy, will take the issue to a specially-convened UN meeting later this month &#8211; A World at School&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aworldatschool.org\/page\/s\/syria\">has set up a petition<\/a>&nbsp;to let people show their support for the initiative.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malala_Yousafzai\">Malala Yousafzai<\/a>, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for daring to campaign for girls&#39; right to an education, and a potent global symbol of the desperate need to educate every child, has already shown her support by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakistantoday.com.pk\/2013\/09\/08\/news\/national\/malala-brings-hope-to-syrian-refugee-girls-thru-skype\/\">chatting over Skype with Zahra and Om Kolthoum Katou<\/a>, twin sisters from Aleppo in Syria: they both dream of returning to school so that they can&nbsp;become doctors. Malala said to them:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: normal;\">I totally support you. You are very brave. I believe that you will get your education that you will go to school &ndash; and that no one can stop you. One day you will be my doctor and I will be your patient.<\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Countries around the world need to stump up another $350m to make Watkins&#39; plan come true. It is a lot of money, but for the sake of a generation of Syrian children deprived of an education by the barbarism of Assad, it would be money well spent<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style: disc url(data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20xmlns%3Axlink%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1999%2Fxlink%22%20x%3D%220px%22%20y%3D%220px%22%20width%3D%2214px%22%20height%3D%2214px%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%2028%2028%22%20xml%3Aspace%3D%22preserve%22%3E%3Ccircle%20fill%3D%22%23F2994B%22%20stroke-width%3D%222%22%20cx%3D%2214%22%20cy%3D%2214%22%20r%3D%2214%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E);\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malala Yousafzai &#8211;&nbsp;Portrait by Jonathan Yeo The mission of&nbsp;A World at School&nbsp;is: We: make noise for education, asking leaders to raise budgets, build schools, train teachers and improve learning &#8211; and we use&nbsp;your&nbsp;voice to do this move governments and policy makers&nbsp;to action by providing them with concrete data and&nbsp;action plans, and by exposing them to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9,6,4],"tags":[210,215,63,213,60,211,214,209,110,212,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamlearner.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}