Every child deserves a chance to learn and to grow.
The education system in Lebanon consists of 44% public and 56% private schools. After enduring years of economic and government collapse, Lebanon’s public schools are failing, the government unable to maintain schools or pay teachers consistently enough to stave off strikes.
Parents prefer functioning private schools over failing public schools; however, private school tuition has increased this year between 50% and 120% due to extreme inflation. More than 80% of households have been plunged below the poverty level due to the 2019 financial collapse. More than 30,000 children from families forced to flee their homes and their livelihoods due to hostilities in the south of Lebanon attend schools that have been closed by the war.
Private tuition is outside the realm of possibility for many children living in abject poverty. Between economic conditions making education unaffordable and war making schools inaccessible, an entire generation of children in Lebanon are suffering learning loss that may not be reversible. This is devastating.
Education is the surest way out of poverty. That is why WAM provides tuition support to impoverished families to help them send their children to school. Join us in transforming the lives of deserving children by investing in their education today.
