Reports | 25 05 2020
The academic lives of thousands of university students in Aleppo and its countryside has come to an abrupt end, with the regime tightening its grip on the city's University, and arresting many of the students who participated in demonstrations at the university, two years ago.
These developments have forced a number of students to return to their homes and leave their studies, particularly rural Aleppans.
Several former university students from the village of Kafra the northern countryside assembled themselves, and decided to do something for their town. After having had their studies interrupted, they found rehabilitating their village school and returning it to work the best volunteer project to embark upon—far better than wasting their time away, awaiting their return to university.
The village school was opened in conjunction with the beginning of the current academic year. 11 teachers currently work in the school, says Abdul Karim, one of the volunteer teachers.
The school volunteer organizing team is calling upon all students to work in the volunteer domain, with teacher Hassan seeing that benefitting those children who dropped out of school for almost four years now, as a duty of those who are intellectuals. He blieves that their involvement at these schools can help mitigate the damage that has been done to school education.
Despite the obvious weak experience of most university students in the field of teaching; their work seems highly salient and beneficial given the abject educational situation many areas of Syria are experiencing.