Syrian teacher Ahmed Hilal listens to his young students sitting on a mat, chanting the letters of the Arabic alphabet in a poorly equipped temporary school in a tent on the outskirts of a sprawling refugee camp along the Turkish border.

Many of these children fled with their mothers in search of survival from the violent bombing by Syrian and Russian warplanes, which paralyzed daily life and damaged dozens of schools and hospitals.

Now the children, who are bearing the brunt of winter in a camp that has sunk many of his tents, are gathering on the ground learning how to read using scraps of paper and pencils.

These children "suffer from ignorance and do not read or write," said Al-Hilal, who teaches more than 140 children in three separate tents in a few large camps crowded on the outskirts of the border city of Azaz.

Children and women make up the bulk of these 350,000 people fleeing the attack. These displaced people have fled the attack, which was renewed since December, and the United Nations says it has deepened the stronghold of the Syrian opposition in the northwest.

A 14-year-old student named Khaled said, "I come here to learn, as we were displaced to Azaz from the southeastern Idlib countryside, specifically from the Abu Dahour region after the army advanced ... Today we take lessons in the tent after we escaped from the bombing and no There are schools that can accommodate us, after our areas and schools were bombed. ”

Al-Hilal himself had fled his hometown Abu al-Dhour in Idlib after it was taken over by the Syrian army.

"We bought some notebooks and parts of the Quran, and today we are teaching them inside this tent," said Al-Hilal, 48, who was a teacher before the outbreak of the conflict nearly nine years ago.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that the war will leave a generation that has never attended school, and the devastating effects on education after it destroyed 7,000 schools and nearly two million children left the school system.

In a nearby camp in al-Bab, volunteers turned a school bus into a classroom.

Inside the ornate bus, about 50 five-year-old boys and girls take lessons in math, life skills, Arabic language and religion.

"The idea of ​​the bus started 6 months ago because of the difficulty of moving students between the camps and schools, so we worked to equip the bus so that it would be a mobile school," said Maoia Shoular, 32, who fled from a former stronghold of opposition fighters in Homs three years ago.

"There are 4 professors working in the bus, and today we serve one camp and we are seeking to expand to other camps, where the Arab bus studies mathematics, science, religion, life skills and outdoor exercise," she added.

"The feeling of displacement gives me the motivation to work with these children, as they are displaced," she added. Displacement has had a huge impact on me in order to get the children out of the convergence they live in. ”