Germany has donated 34.2 million euros ($39.6 million) to the U.N.’s children fund to support Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a statement said Tuesday.
A statement posted to the U.N.’s ReliefWeb website said the German Development Bank grant is aimed at assisting UNICEF in providing access to "quality formal and non-formal education in safe and protective environments and ensuring that girls, boys and women have adequate access to child protection services."
Salam Abdulmunem, a UNICEF spokesperson, told The Daily Star that the programs are already in place and that the new grant allows for them to keep providing the services.
In two weeks, UNICEF is expecting to receive about another 15 million euros from Germany under another program for a sanitation project, he said.
The grant announced Tuesday will enable UNICEF to keep providing over 58,000 “vulnerable children” with education opportunities and offer remedial classes to around 23,000 Syrian refugee children with the hope that they will eventually enroll in the Lebanese educational system.
It will also allow UNICEF to provide technical support to Lebanon’s Ministry of Education, the statement added.
Lebanon hosts over 1.1 million Syrian refugees, making up about one-quarter of the country’s population.
Lebanon’s education minister said last week that he will try to enroll as many Syrian refugees in school as possible.
A report released in September by Save the Children revealed that four out of five Syrian children in Lebanon were not enrolled in school.
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