Malala urges
support to educate Syria refugee children
Malala Yousafzai who survived being shot in the head
by the Taliban, urged the world on Wednesday to help Syrian refugee children
receive proper education.
There are still so many girls and children who
cannot go to school, Malala said as she visited a school in northern Jordan’s
refugee camp.
I think the whole community outside, the
international community, should help these children, she said in a vide posted
on the United nations refugee agency of UNHCR.
Someone wants to become a doctor, someone wants to
become an engineer and someone wants to become a journalist etc.
Malala’s visit was very important to me because she
is a girl who faced a lot of difficulties at any early age in her society. So she
is interested in education because education is the most important thing, said
16 years old Maisun a Syrian girl who accompanied Malala on her visit.
Malala who is now 16 years old and was nominated for
the last for Nobel Peace prize, talked to a Syrian school children and attended
classes.
Having Malala here is really key to highlight. That
we need to offer as many opportunities as we can for children to access formal
schools, to access informal education and get the psychological support that
they need now before they become adults.
According to the United Nations 80 schools in Jordan
hold classes for Syrians in the afternoon, leaving 25 percent of the nearly
140000 Syrian school aged children across the kingdom not in classes.
In this regards, the Malala Fund is already teaming
up with Save the Children to build a new school and expand an existing one for
the refugees in Jordan, home to more than 500000 Syrians who have fled the war
in their country.
Malala who now lives in Britain following extensive
medical treatment, was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 over her outspoken
views on education for girls in her home region of northwest Pakistan.
