Children Back from Syria, Back to Schools

Along with other children, children who returned from conflict areas in Syria and Iraq will be seated at school banks.

Of the 74 children back with their families in Kosovo in April this year, 10 of them belong to the level of gardens, 5 are preschoolers, 25 will continue primary education and 34 the low and high middle education rate.

Aferdita Jaha from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MASHT) told Radio Free Europe that this ministry in co-operation with municipal education directors has made all preparations for enrolling students in schools.

“In collaboration with municipal directors and the Ministry of Internal Affairs on September 2nd, all children turned from war grounds will begin learning. The lesson will begin for children from the age of 6. In primary education, 25 students will return, until pre-school education 5 students” will return, Jaha said.

It has shown that they have provided quartus to provide accelerated teaching for students whose age is older than their previous age to be regular students. These children are from Pristina, Suhareka, Lipjan, Ferizaj, Mitrovica, Kline and Gjilan.

In April of this year, 110 Kosovo citizens -- including 32 women, 74 children and four fighters -- returned from Syria to Kosovo.

Their return, however, had opened another challenge for the state of Kosovo, respectively, their reintegration. National Co-ordinator for the Prevention of Violent Extremism Fatos Makolli had long ago declared for Radio Free Europe that security institutions are doing their job. He had singled out as a challenge <x0fasis rehabilitation, as returnees have experienced difficult times in conflict areas, whether in countries where they have lived or in various camps, where there are families that have long been”.

The rehabilitation and reintegration of people returning from conflict areas where they have been for a long time, will be difficult, there will be big challenges”, Makolli had declared.
Clear text to find in REL.