This month the Syrian civil war will begin its seventh year. One tenth of the Syrian population has either been killed or wounded since the war began in March 2011.
But there are also living victims, a whole generation of uneducated Syrian children. Inside Syria, schools have closed, or have been blown to smithereens.
Classes are held in some of the refugee camps, but for many Syrian kids, there is no day-long, formal education available.
In Lebanon, nearly have a million refugee children are 12-years of age or younger.
Now, Sat-7, a Christian Satellite television network broadcasting throughout the Middle East, is doing what it can to provide them with an education via television. This is novel programming for the Middle East.
Math, Science, Arabic, English are among the lessons broadcast. Watch my interview with Sat-7’s Rita El Mounayer to discover what else they’re teaching the kids and how they plan to gauge educational success.