Thirty portable classrooms will be put up for refugee children in Süleyman Şah, which is the largest tent city housing thousands of Syrian refugees.
Syrian children who have studied under tents until now will begin to study in portable classrooms starting next week.
The director of the tent city, Hüseyin Ortaç, said that
, AFAD, will open the prefab classrooms to create a more stable environment for children. “The modular classes will have standard capacity,” he added.
Nearly 30,000 refugees have reportedly found shelter in Süleyman Şah Tent City, in Akçakale a town in Şanlıurfa province on the Syrian border. The tent city currently houses 250 Syrian teachers and 9,000 refugee children. Syrian refugees began to flee to Turkey as of March 2011 after the eruption of the civil conflict in their homeland almost five years ago. A plan to provide education facilities to refugee children has become one of the most important items on the Turkish government's agenda.
