Back to class in Syria with new school kits

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A poster in downtown Damascus announces the opening of schools on September 14, 2014. The test reads: “Let’s learn together: Education is Fun!” With the support of many donors, including the European Union, UNICEF is providing up to one million children with school bags and stationery. ©UNICEF/Syria-2014/Tomoya Sonoda

A girl in a grade one class checks her new UNICEF pencil case at a school in central Damascus. With the generous support of many donors including the European Union, UNICEF is providing up to one million children with school bags and stationery supplies. ©UNICEF/Syria-2014/Tomoya Sonoda

Two girls examine stationery supplies which they just received from UNICEF as part of a school bag and stationery kit. Thanks to the generous support of many donors including the European Union, UNICEF is providing up to one million children with school bags and stationery. ©UNICEF/Syria-2014/Tomoya Sonoda

A UNICEF Education specialist checks school bags and stationery supplies prior to their distribution at a central Damascus School. UNICEF’s ‘Back to Learning’ campaign, with the generous support of donors including the European Union, will provide up to one million conflict-affected children with school bags and stationery. ©UNICEF/Syria-2014/Kumar Tiku

On the first day of the new school year in Syria, children queue to go inside their classrooms at a Damascus school. UNICEF is supporting a ‘Back to Learning’ campaign across the country which, with the generous support of donors including the European Union, will see up to one million conflict-affected children receive school bags containing stationery supplies. ©UNICEF/Syria-2014/Kumar Tiku

A girl in a grade one class counts her new colouring pencils which were, along with other stationery supplies, distributed to children for the new school year. UNICEF is supporting up to one million children conflict-affected children with school bags and stationery. ©UNICEF/Syria-2014/Razan Rashidi

Damascus, Syria – On September 14, the school year began in Syria. UNICEF is supporting a nationwide ‘Back to Learning’ campaign to provide school supplies for up to one million conflict-affected children. Each child will receive a school bag containing stationery supplies including notebooks, a pencil case, pens, pencils, colouring pencils, rulers, erasers and pencil sharpeners.

The Back to Learning campaign has been made possible through the generous support of the European Union, the US fund for UNICEF in partnership with the Educate a Child programme, the Governments of Canada and Japan, and IKEA.

An estimated one million children remaining out of school as a result of the on-going conflict across the country. One in five schools have been affected by the crisis and school attendance is less than half in areas such as Raqqa and Idleb.

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