UNITED NATIONS: George and Amal Clooney plan to help nearly 3,000 Syrian refugee children go to school this year in Lebanon, where the United Nations says around 200,000 Syrian refugee children are out of education.
More than one million Syrians — including over 500,000 children — are registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing the devastating war that has lasted more than six years in neighboring Syria.
UNICEF said Monday that close to 200,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are out of school. Human Rights Watch estimates the number at more than 250,000.
The nearly 3,000 Syrian children’s education will be funded through a $2.25 million partnership announced by The Clooney Foundation for Justice with Google, in addition to a $1 million technology grant from HP.
The partnership with UNICEF will help seven public schools educate the students, who are not currently in school, and will support a pilot of technology tools in these schools for refugee and Lebanese children, the Clooneys said.
“Thousands of young Syrian refugees are at risk — the risk of never being a productive part of society. Formal education can help change that,” the couple said in a statement.
“We don’t want to lose an entire generation because they had the bad luck of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time,” they added.
More than 330,000 people have been killed in Syria since war broke out in March 2011 with anti-government protests that have evolved into a complex proxy war.
The Clooneys welcomed their first children — a twin boy and girl — in Britain last month. Amal Clooney, a prominent British-Lebanese human rights lawyer, married the Hollywood movie star in 2014.
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Clooneys to help 3,000 Syrian children in Lebanon
Clooneys to help 3,000 Syrian children in Lebanon
Passengers flee snake at Australian train station
- Footage showed the small serpent wriggling down the platform in the city of Sydney on Sunday night
Commuters jumped in fright as a snake slithered across a city train platform in Australia, proving nowhere is safe from the nation’s creepy-crawlies.
Footage showed the small serpent wriggling down the platform in the city of Sydney on Sunday night.
One woman abandons her bike after spotting the snake and flees in the opposite direction, while other passengers anxiously huddle together on the platform.
The impasse is solved when one passenger plucks up the courage to hoist the snake by its tail and drop it over the hand railing.
“A passenger who got off a train took it upon himself to handle the intruder,” said government agency Transport for New South Wales, adding that “the man did not flinch.”
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