The Story of Aya

I am attending a Regional ECE Experts meeting, along with a meeting of the World Forum Global Leaders from the Arab Region, in Abu Dhabi in the UAE.  One of the major topics of the meeting is the devastating conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic that has forced one million children to flee their homeland.  Making the point of the tragedy more effectively than any of the Ministers and NGO leaders was this short UNICEF video  about eight-year-old Aya who hasn’t been to school in two years while she and her family live in a refugee camp in Lebanon.  The Lebanese government is making heroic efforts to support refugee children, but is totally overwhelmed by the numbers.

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