Refugee children face education black hole on Greek Islands – The National

Refugee children face education black hole on Greek Islands – The National

Coronavirus and cash crisis threaten to bring bleak future for youngsters who fled war. Thousands of refugee children who fled war in Syria and Afghanistan face life without education from June because of a cash crisis in the overcrowded camps of the Greek islands, a report shows.. Theirworld says that €20 million (Dh79.4m/$21.6m) is needed for the next two years to school the estimated 6,000 refugee children on the islands.. It said fewer than a third of the children were receiving any schooling by late 2019.. The UN has called on donors to give $1.5m for remote learning for refugee children, whose education has almost entirely been stopped by the Covid-19 outbreak and their traumatic journeys to Europe.. The highest number of refugees are at the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, which was built for 3,000 people but is now home to nearly 20,000.. A new mother in a camp near Athens this month became the first refugee from a Greek refugee centre to test positive for Covid-19.. The situation on the Greek islands is part of a bigger problem.. About 1.5 million refugee children, most of whom fled the Syrian war, are out of school in