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BBC Tareq, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy, is a pile of Gaza waste, wearing jeans, sweater and yellow backpackBBC

“When I saw my school waste, a deep sadness overflowed me,” says Tareq, a 10-year-old Palestinian of Gaza

Tareq, 10, Gaza and Safaa, 14, lives about 2,000 km from Sudan. They never met, but they share hard reality – war stole education.

“When I saw it in the waste of school, a deep sadness overflowed me. I’m bored to return once,” Tareq tells Gaza BBCK.

“Anyway, I don’t let me learn. I learn at home, so make sure I get back to school, I’ll be ready,” he added.

He dreams of becoming Sudan, Safaa’s heart surgeon. “I hold the hope,” he says, but it has traumatic memories of the Civil War in the country.

“The bodies were scattered everywhere, and that took me deeply and wanted to save life instead of watching losing life.”

Safaa, a 14-year-old Sudan girl, is represented at a refugee camp with five other children. Safaa wears a long sleeve dress and scarf pattern.

Safaa, a 14-year-old Sudan girl, said he dreams of becoming a heart surgeon

Tareq and Safaa are the United Nations UNICEF’s United Nations Agency, outside the Middle East and North African school. More than half – more than 16.5 million – Calculates that it is only in Sudan.

In response, the BBC World Service won the Dars – or lesson of his award-winning education program.

In the last year of Gaza, “more than 600,000 children – that is all children in Gaza schools – he didn’t get education,” says Saleem Oweis, Spokesman at UNICEF.

“We are seeing damage, safety and crisis whose crisis are affecting children’s education and learning.” He added.

In Sudan, the Civil War between the army and the support of the Paramilites, millions of children live in the camps available only through local education initiatives.

In an interview with BBC, the Minister of Education in Sudan, Ahmed Khalifa highlights the scale of destruction.

“Statured is not saved,” he noted. “Sudan has approximately 15,000 public schools. 60% of these schools have been completely affected by 60% and lost the basics, infrastructure and books.

“Even in safer states, schools have suffered damage due to systematic destruction of militia.”

A illustrative image of the Dars lesson shows two young people: a boy with brown hair, wearing high orange and blue glasses, wearing a girl with brown hair. They both lifted one hand. In the middle, there is a man in the beige clothes.

BBC Dars offers educational lessons to young people

Dars started in 2023 for children in Afghanistan, including girls who are prohibited from the secondary school, described that children who cannot be able to attend classes with nations.

Designed for children between 11 and 16, Dars Arabic has weekly lessons including math, technology, climate and mental health.

It also has children’s stories, although Tareq and Safaa, despite the war and other obstacles, although they learn.

The first episode on Sunday on Sunday, BBC News on TV. New episodes are broadcast every week on Sundays 05:30 GMT (07:30 EET), 10:05 GMT (12:05 EET) and repetitions during the week.

The program is also available in digital platforms, including BBC News Arabic Youtube, as well as Liveeline Radio Service Gaza and Syria.

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