Kids in Iraq camps dream big, but they can’t enroll in school
Maareb has big dreams, but she may never get to realize them. Every day, when her friends attend class in the Iraqi displacement camp they call home, she stays behind. The makeshift primary school in the dusty Hammam al-Alil 2 camp in Iraq’s north opened earlier this year, but several thousand displaced children are unable […]Maareb has big dreams, but she may never get to realize them. Every day, when her friends attend class in the Iraqi displacement camp they call home, she stays behind.
The makeshift primary school in the dusty Hammam al-Alil 2 camp in Iraq’s north opened earlier this year, but several thousand displaced children are unable to access it.
“I want to go to school with my friends, but I’m not allowed because I don’t have an ID,” says the seven-year-old, her plaited hair dangling down her back.
