This year marked the sixth in a row where the 1.5 million children in Lebanon faced significant disruptions to schooling as education has been hit especially hard amid several crises, including the recent fighting with Israel. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/02/world/society/generation-lebanon-education-crisis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #education #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #lebanon #hezbollah #children
'We have a lost generation': Lebanon's education crisis
At least 500 public schools in Lebanon, roughly one in two in what is a badly underfunded sector, were converted into shelters in recent months to house people.Nazih Osseiran (The Japan Times)