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Food, heat or education?: Exorbitant school costs leave families in Lebanon with an impossible choice | Save the Children International
Summary by Ground News
Lebanon’s economic crisis, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has left thousands of families with the difficult choice of how to spend what little income they have. More than 737,000 children in Lebanon are not in class this year, and 30% of Syrian children have never been to school. Save the Children's helpline has received a sharp increase in phone calls from parents requesting support for their children to attend class.
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