3.7 million school-aged refugee children have no school to go to: UN

The UN estimates nearly 900000 Syrian refugee children are not in school

GENEVA (AFP) - 15 Sep. 2016- Fewer than half of the world's some six million refugee children are in school, making them five times less likely to get an education than the global average, the UN warned Thursday.
A full 3.7 million school-aged refugee children have no school to go to, the UN refugee agency said in a report.
'This represents a crisis for millions of refugee children,' UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said in a statement, urging international action to get the children back to school.
His comments came ahead of the first-ever UN summit on refugees and migrants, to be held in New York on September 19, and which will be followed the next day by a pledging conference for new offers of aid to refugees hosted by President Barack Obama.
'As the international community considers how best to deal with the refugee crisis, it is essential that we think beyond basic survival,' Grandi said, pointing out that refugees on average are displaced for about 20 years.
That, he said in the UN report, 'is more than an entire childhood.'
'Education enables refugees to positively shape the future of both their countries of asylum and their home countries when they one day return,' he stressed.

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