“I am from Aleppo and have been with my family in the camp for seven months. This first lesson in the center was the best day since I arrived… I used a tablet and told my cousins about it!” Mohammad says excited.
Nour arrived about two weeks ago. Her parents couldn’t afford a tent so they all stay in their aunt’s. Bombings and insecurity were part of her daily life before arriving in Al Salama. So when Nour’s teacher talked about this new program at school she was delighted: “Learning differently made me happy” she says.
Mohammad and Nour are among the 250 first children who attend the educational center equipped with tablets in Al Salama camp at the Turkish-Syrian border. Like them, each day 56 pupils get to know the newest technologies thanks to TSF. Tablets are playful, dynamic and intuitive and offer a more informal way of learning, enabling pupils to interact with their classmates. They can also stay connected with the outside of the world, beyond the camp area, which is constantly changing.
These Syrian children paid a huge price to the conflict which is pulling their country apart. Most of them are isolated from the outside world and traumatized by the tragedy they’ve been through. But in Al Salama, they now rush every morning to the tent housing the education center. They are so eager to learn. It wipes from their mind some of the dreadful images of the war—at least for a short while—and gives them hope for a better future.
