Tent school
| Tent school eV | |
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 2016 in Munich |
| Founder | Jacqueline Flory |
| Seat | Munich |
| purpose | Supporting refugee children when they go to school |
| Chair | Jacqueline Flory |
| people | Elsbeth Bösl (school cooperation) Dominique Färber (Finance) |
| Members | 800 (2020) |
| Website | www.zeltschule.org |
Tent school e. V. is a non-profit association based in Munich that supports refugees by running improvised schools in tents for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon and Syria . Most of the camps and thus also tent schools for refugees are located in the Lebanese Bekaa plain , on the border with Syria.
Structure and organization
Tent school e. V. is a non-profit association with 800 members (as of June 2020). He has three employees part-time and one full-time. The partner in Lebanon is "Alphabeth for Alternative Education: Lebanese partner organization", which supports the tent school association with its organizational tasks.
The association is financed exclusively through donations, 75% from individual donations.
history
The association was created by an idea by Jacqueline Flory, a Munich-based author and translator (including Arabic). In autumn 2015 she started collecting money at her children's school on the occasion of the so-called refugee crisis . In spring 2016 she founded the association “Zeltschule e. V. “In August 2016 the first tent school was built.
Tent schools in Syria and Lebanon
The tent schools consist of a wooden frame that is anchored in the ground. Several layers of recycled tarpaulin are wrapped around it. There are tables, benches and a blackboard in the tent school. The largest school is 60 square meters. The construction of the schools is carried out by Zeltschule e. V. financed.
There are currently 13 schools in Lebanon. A total of 5,410 refugee children between the ages of five and 14 are educated every day (in Syria and Lebanon) (as of May 2020). It costs 7,000 euros to build a makeshift classroom and 3,000 euros a month for maintenance. Currently (as of May 2020) the association supports around 20,000 people every month.
The lessons are carried out by Syrian teachers who are also on the run and live in the camps. Five subjects are taught: Arabic, math, English, science and music. The teaching is based on the Syrian curriculum. The aim is to prepare the children for a return home. Girls and boys take part in the lessons and are taught according to age groups.
In 2017, the association began providing schools in Homs for returned refugees. The association currently operates eight schools in Syria. For the Lebanese tent schools, too, the association has long-term plans to move them to Syria after the end of the war . In this way, those responsible want to ensure that the children can continue to be taught during the reconstruction.
In connection with the CoViD-19 pandemic , the Lebanese government issued a nationwide teaching ban in mid-April 2020. In Syria, CoViD-19 has the camps in which Zeltschule e. V. is active, not yet reached by May 2020 The situation in the refugee camps is tense, especially for the children. According to Flory, donations are currently not being made.
Support next to the school
Adult Syrian refugees are not allowed to work in Lebanon. Children, on the other hand, often work in the fields of the Lebanese and with their income they take on the care or financial responsibility for their entire family. For example, every refugee in the camps is forced to pay rent to the landowner. So that the children can go to school, the association provides everyone in the family with the essentials: water, food, medicine, clothing and firewood.
For International Women's Day 2020, the association started a new project: It should help women to provide for themselves and their children independently. In so-called women's workshops, women, mainly widows, learn manual skills in order to be able to support their families.
Prizes and awards
- 2019 Golden Woman Image for Jacqueline Flory
- StartSocial, 2018 + 2019
- Nominated for the German Engagement Prize 2017 and 2018
- Good example in 2017
literature
- Fragments. Everyday life of a lost generation. Jacqueline Flory. 2020. Zeltschule e. V.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alphabet for Alternative Education. Retrieved May 29, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Help for Refugees: A tent school in Lebanon. March 10, 2020, accessed May 28, 2020 .
- ^ A b refugee helper: "We'll need these tent schools for years to come". Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
- ^ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Jacqueline Flory, founder of the "Zeltschule" association - blue couch. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Jacqueline Flory. In: GOLDEN PICTURE of WOMAN. Retrieved on May 28, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Home - Zeltschule eV - We make school! Take part! - Zeltschule eV - We make school! Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Nadine Landert, Olga Scheer: Corona: How Covid-19 affects refugee camps | NZZ podcast . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on May 28, 2020]).
- ↑ Corona in Syria and Lebanon: "Spread of Covid-19 in refugee camps would be a death sentence". March 27, 2020, accessed May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ fragments. Everyday life of a lost generation. Jacqueline Flory. 2020. Zeltschule e. V.
- ↑ Zeltschule eV Accessed on May 28, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Zeltschule eV, Zeltschule eV: International Women's Day 2020 - the tent school is looking for support for women's workshops in Lebanon - openPR. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Jacqueline Flory. In: GOLDEN PICTURE of WOMAN. Retrieved on May 28, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Projects 2018 | startsocial. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ tent schools. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Good example: These were the 2017 winners . November 16, 2017 ( br.de [accessed on May 28, 2020]).