Lebanon: with the crisis, some children may never return to school, fears an NGO

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Due to the economic and financial crisis, Lebanon faces an explosion of poverty.

Here, a man searches the garbage cans in the city of Sidon on February 3, 2021 (illustrative image).

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In Lebanon, some children may never return to school, warns the NGO Save the Children.

More than a million children have been out of school since the onset of the health crisis, to which is added an economic and political crisis.

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Today, more than half of the Lebanese live below the poverty line.

Even with a return to a normal health situation, Nana Ndeda, spokesperson for Save the Children, fears that thousands of children will never return to school benches: “ 

We have noted

, she said,

a large increase in children who work or who are married.

This makes their return to school very difficult.

The resources required for their return are also an obstacle.

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At the time of Covid 19

,” says Nana Ndeda, “

we are using new ways of teaching.

With the economic situation, parents are struggling to make purchasing this new learning material a priority.

It means having an internet connection, buying a phone or a computer. 

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We know that a big part of the economic situation is due to the political crisis.

The political problems which prevent Lebanon from having a stable economy must absolutely be resolved.

It is an emergency, so that we can then help the children to go back to school,

 ”said the spokesperson for Save the Children.

To read also: Crisis in Lebanon: more and more inhabitants are now struggling to eat

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