Refugee Children Out Of School

Ahmed Abdelsattar was 14 when ISIS swept into Mosul and declared a "caliphate" in 2014. Fearing he would be indoctrinated and sent to fight by the terrorists, his parents took him out of school. Three years later, he sells ice cream at a refugee camp for internally displaced Iraqis.

Fewer than half of the world's some six million refugee children are in school, making them five times less likely to get an education than the global average, the UN warned today.

In the polarised climate of post-riot Muzaffarnagar, it is hard to imagine that the village school was a unifying force, where children of Jats and Muslims studied together. But today, those schools have emptied out of Muslim children, who are now huddled in the freezing cold of a refugee camp, with no access to modern education, and to the shared ...

Ahmed Abdelsattar was 14 when ISIS swept into Mosul and declared a "caliphate" in 2014. Fearing he would be indoctrinated and sent to fight by the terrorists, his parents took him out of school. Three years later, he sells ice cream at a refugee camp for internally displaced Iraqis.

Fewer than half of the world's some six million refugee children are in school, making them five times less likely to get an education than the global average, the UN warned today.

In the polarised climate of post-riot Muzaffarnagar, it is hard to imagine that the village school was a unifying force, where children of Jats and Muslims studied together. But today, those schools have emptied out of Muslim children, who are now huddled in the freezing cold of a refugee camp, with no access to modern education, and to the shared ...