Distribution of school bags and equipment to students of Al-Rafeqa School

Founded in 1995, Al-Rafeqa School has been named after the village in which it is known as the Good Land. The school has primary and intermediate school students, with more than 500 students, and the school was closed during ISIS’s takeover of the area until 2017, before it reopened.

The project of “Me and My School 2” targeted Al-Rafeqa school in the campaign to distribute bags and school tools in order to reduce the expenses of education that may burden the parents of students, as well as to encourage children to return to school after they were cut off until 2017, and on 12/11/2019 the project staff distributed 473 bags to students after having some sweets provided by the organization’s team.

“Me and My School 2” is a project that aims to provide students in 13 schools in Raqqa city and its countryside with school bags and tools to meet their basic educational needs. Launched on 20 March 2019 by GAV for Relief and Development, my school is a continuation of the “Me and My School” project, which aims to create the right environment for the families and children of Al-Raqqa and Al-Qahtaniyah area of the governorate countryside to engage in the educational process in a coordinated and orderly manner, and to encourage the return of displaced persons to their liberated towns and villages, as part of the organization’s plan to respond to the needs of the education sector in north-eastern Syria.

The first phase of the project included a service response to 37 schools among the most affected by the war in Raqqa and its countryside by maintaining its blackboards and providing its classrooms with seats, tables, chairs, stationery, chalk and children’s entertainment sets, as well as providing schools with billboards, trash cans and garbage containers.