‘The exclusion of refugee children from the Greek education system reached record levels during the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting reactions from across the education sector, MPs and civil society’
Educational integration is one of the key aspects of international protection standards.
And one of the main concerns as regards #RefugeesGr reception conditions — who are currently facing two options: de-schooling or ‘segregated education system’
On #Samos, few children enrolled in public schools but still face inherent challenges:
‘In the morning I have to walk to the camp and get water from there. [...] When it is dark, I try to read in the tent. Some organisations gave us lamps, because we don’t have electricity’
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‘In the first months I used to have spare time and I would play football or go for running. Since we got our [asylum] case rejected… many times I spend time on thinking about our future… I don’t feel like a child anymore’.
(S*, 17, Syrian boy)