Lost generation: 500,000 Syrian refugee children still out of school
"A lot of the parents who live in refugee camps, whether in Syria or Lebanon, do not send their children to school after age 12 or 13, but send them to work," says an aid worker in Lebanon.
Syrian refugee children pose as they play near their families' residence at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 30, 2016.(photo credit: REUTERS)ByLINDA GRADSTEIN/THE MEDIA LINE