Rehabilitation of Schools Affected by Terrorism in Damascus Countryside Continues

The Damascus Countryside Education Directorate in cooperation with the local community continues the rehabilitation and maintenance of schools that have been affected by terrorism with the aim of putting them back into service. The restoration and rehabilitation of the women’s vocational school in Erbin town will be completed within 20 days to put it into service.

Damascus Countryside Education Director Abdul Halim al-Yousef referred to the actions taken by the Directorate in cooperation with the local community to rehabilitate, maintain and reopen schools as the new school year begins, and to secure the educational staff and provide all requirements of the educational process within available possibilities.

The supervisor of the Educational Complex in Eastern Ghouta Rawa Ghabrah stressed the role of the local community and international organizations in helping restore schools, explaining that the complex included 157 schools before the terrorist war on Syria, while today there are 120 schools in service, while 38 schools are still out of service at the level of the complex areas, and during the new academic year, 4 schools will be put into service in the areas of Erbin, Mleiha and Haza.

Engineer Emad al-Jamal, supervisor of the restoration of the women’s vocational school in Erbin, explained that the restoration process aims to put the first building block, which includes 9 classrooms and 6 management rooms into service during the next 20 days. After that, the restoration of the second, more damaged block begins. The area of each block is 300 square meters, and the total area of the school is 1200 square meters.

The chairman of the Erbin city council, engineer Rateb Shahrour, pointed out that the civil society contributed to the restoration of the women’s vocational school, pointing out that the city of Erbin includes 18 schools in addition to the Private Community School, most of which were vandalized by terrorism. 14 schools were restored by the local community in cooperation with the directorate of education and the city council, he added.

Amal Farhat