« Saudi Arabia, for supporting the Syrians» provide for study expenses of 6 thousand refugees

« Saudi Arabia, for supporting the Syrians» provide for study expenses of 6 thousand refugeesimage

18 May 2015

Saudi Arabia national campaign for supporting the Syrians, said that they undertook the expenses of the study for six thousand Syrian students so far, half of them have been studying in 52 of the Lebanese schools this year.

The regional director of the campaign Dr. Badr bin Abdulrahman Al-Samhan, described these students as «the ray of hope for Syria», saying «our educational aspect to the children of refugees» under the guidance of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the Crown Prince General Supervisor of the Saudi relief campaigns.

Samhan said, that «6 thousand students have benefited from the Syrian educational programs».

In the meantime, Officials from «victory Syrians» office in Lebanon, had visited a number of schools contracted by the campaign to host the children of refugees in the framework of the second phase of the program «My brother we build it by education.»

According to the Director of the Office of the campaign in Lebanon, Walid bin Ali Jalal, three thousand students from refugee children have benefited from this stage during the current school year.

And he mentioned the value of the contract with Lebanese schools, is $ 1.5 million, referring to «cooperation of Hariri schools and faith schools with us to implement the program.»

According to Jalal, the purpose of visiting some of the schools is to check on the functioning of the educational process and to measure the advantage that the students took of them, especially with the approach of the final tests.