Jordan - A Shelter in a Teacher’s Heart

UNESCO is fully engaged in the European Year for Development 2015 (EYD 2015). During February, the EYD focus will be on education in development. The UNESCO Liaison Office has collected human-centered stories which showcase UNESCO’s successful programmes in the field of education.

You can read the introduction of our first story below and you can access the full story by visiting the UNESCO page on the EYD2015 website: https://europa.eu/eyd2015/en/unesco/stories/shelter-heart-teacher. 

Feel free to comment and to share your experience with education in post-conflict situations.

Jordan - A Shelter in a Teacher’s Heart

Laila is a teacher at a public high school in Jordan. She was trained within the EU-funded UNESCO programme ‘Sustaining Quality Education and Promoting Skills Development for Young Syrian Refugees in Jordan’. Raneem is a Syrian refugee and was one of Laila’s students. Laila tells us her story about Raneem.