Human Wrongs Watch
By Charlie Dunmore in Beirut, Lebanon*
By offering basic literacy and numeracy courses, the Borderless Centre in Beirut is part of a nationwide drive to get refugee children out of work and into school. | عربي

Syrian refugee Fahed pictured in Beirut, Lebanon.© UNHCR/Diego Ibarra Sánchez
2 September 2019 (UNHCR)* — In a small classroom overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, young Syrian refugees learn mathematics on portable computers – their first steps towards formal education. A few months ago, most of them were trying to make a living on the streets of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.


