More than 250,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon who are not in school, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday.
The problem is particularly acute among children aged 15-18, just three percent of whom were enrolled in Lebanon's public schools during the 2015-2016 school year, according to HRW.
Mariam Khatib, a 15-year-old Syrian refugee:
"People are nothing without education," says the shy teenager, who has not been in a classroom since her family fled the southern Syrian province of Daraa three and a half years ago.
"I wish God would grant one wish to me and my siblings -- that he opens the door for us to go to school," she told AFP.
(AFP)