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Education for Syrian Refugees
Jan. 27th, 2016 09:53 amI signed this petition and thought I'd give you a chance to as well. Here is the description:
The Syrian refugee crisis is one of the world’s largest humanitarian emergencies. More than 17 million people, including over 7 million innocent children, have been affected and rely on international aid to survive.
When I met my brave friend Muzoon, a 17-year-old Syrian refugee, she was living in a refugee camp in Jordan going from tent to tent encouraging girls to stay in school. While there, I saw firsthand how difficult it is to study or even attend school when there are few supplies, teachers, and little electricity.
This is why we are traveling together to the Syria Conference, where world leaders will come together to agree how much funding the world will give to education for Syrian children impacted by the conflict.
We will challenge governments to provide the money needed to guarantee an education for every Syrian child – so that they can continue to learn and build towards their hopes for the future.
The conference will take place on February 4th, so the time to act is now.
Join Muzoon and me in asking President Barack Obama and other world leaders to ensure that at least $1.4 billion dollars per year are dedicated to education for Syrian children.
$1.4 billion dollars may sound like a lot. But we did the math – it’s actually less than the cost of one World Cup stadium. In fact, it will only cost $1 per day, per child, to give every Syrian child a quality education and help ensure peace and a hopeful future. So this isn’t a question of money, it’s a question of will.
We all know how important and precious an education is to a child. As Muzoon says, “people fear that we will become a ‘lost generation’ but we are #notlost. We are the greatest hope for Syria's future and we must make sure the world invests in that hope through education.”
Please lend your voice to our call to fully fund education for Syrian children affected by conflict.
Thank you,
Malala Yousafzai & Muzoon Almellehan
Here is the link:
https://www.change.org/p/support-syrian-children-s-right-to-education-notlost?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=500574&alert_id=huSZawvCqA_DzP4olPUlEymSlCqX5ILXIuvZF6BjfkR8ujWA0Sb2FVim3rI9hCMyk9fpMG0RYcw
The Syrian refugee crisis is one of the world’s largest humanitarian emergencies. More than 17 million people, including over 7 million innocent children, have been affected and rely on international aid to survive.
When I met my brave friend Muzoon, a 17-year-old Syrian refugee, she was living in a refugee camp in Jordan going from tent to tent encouraging girls to stay in school. While there, I saw firsthand how difficult it is to study or even attend school when there are few supplies, teachers, and little electricity.
This is why we are traveling together to the Syria Conference, where world leaders will come together to agree how much funding the world will give to education for Syrian children impacted by the conflict.
We will challenge governments to provide the money needed to guarantee an education for every Syrian child – so that they can continue to learn and build towards their hopes for the future.
The conference will take place on February 4th, so the time to act is now.
Join Muzoon and me in asking President Barack Obama and other world leaders to ensure that at least $1.4 billion dollars per year are dedicated to education for Syrian children.
$1.4 billion dollars may sound like a lot. But we did the math – it’s actually less than the cost of one World Cup stadium. In fact, it will only cost $1 per day, per child, to give every Syrian child a quality education and help ensure peace and a hopeful future. So this isn’t a question of money, it’s a question of will.
We all know how important and precious an education is to a child. As Muzoon says, “people fear that we will become a ‘lost generation’ but we are #notlost. We are the greatest hope for Syria's future and we must make sure the world invests in that hope through education.”
Please lend your voice to our call to fully fund education for Syrian children affected by conflict.
Thank you,
Malala Yousafzai & Muzoon Almellehan
Here is the link:
https://www.change.org/p/support-syrian-children-s-right-to-education-notlost?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=500574&alert_id=huSZawvCqA_DzP4olPUlEymSlCqX5ILXIuvZF6BjfkR8ujWA0Sb2FVim3rI9hCMyk9fpMG0RYcw
