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\'A rich exchange\': The refugees teaching languages in Brazil
The war in Syria caused the tourism industry to collapse so Mr Jeratli tried his luck in ... All teachers go through a two-month pedagogy programme to learn how to teach English, Spanish, French or ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:32:00 GMT

20 Facts You Didn\'t Know About Hanukkah
The eight-day celebration commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, which occurred in the second century B.C. after the Maccabees revolted following its desecration by their ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:44:00 GMT

Iraq: Mental health support for Kurdish refugees fleeing Syria
More than 13,000 people from Syria now live in Bardarash camp, originally built in 2013 to accommodate ... Then I would go to the refugee camps to teach English to children who could not attend school ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 03 Dec 2019 10:55:00 GMT

People in conflict states bear highest cost of terrorism, report says
The top 10 countries impacted by terrorism in 2018 were Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, India ... She worked as a reporter in Colombia, where she previously lived teaching ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 11 Dec 2019 04:36:00 GMT

Inside the classroom where asylum-seeking children can access full-time education
There?s a team of five staff in place at present comprising experienced teachers with skills in English as a foreign language, refugee education and counselling. Students come from a range of ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:00:00 GMT

Lucky ticket: How refugees get by in one of Europe?s most expensive countries
I teach the little ones myself ... admits that he liked living in Syria before the war, but then it became intolerable. "We have lived in Jordan for six years, and ten months ago we moved Switzerland" ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 29 Nov 2019 05:30:00 GMT

Duke professors from low-income first-generation backgrounds are ready to help Duke students
Jen?nan Read was born in the United States and moved to Benghazi, Syria at six months old, attending an international school there ... Upon arriving at IIT, Trivedi encountered some immediate ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:35:00 GMT

US considers leaving smaller number of troops in Afghanistan
Mark Milley, testify to a House committee hearing on U.S. policy in Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019 ... before returning after 10 years to teach journalism and to start an English-language paper.
Publ.Date : Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:50:00 GMT

Despite societal and financial hurdles, Idlib\'s women persevere
An English teacher in the city of Hama, he was never too far out of reach so when Aisha called and wasn?t able to connect to his phone, she knew something was wrong. "I tried to call him many times, ...
Publ.Date : Tue, 03 Dec 2019 01:07:00 GMT

He Rescued His Grandchildren From Syria. Then He Lost Them Again.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden?Seven months ago, Patricio Galvez rescued his seven grandchildren from the rubble of Islamic State. Now he fears he has lost them again, this time to his own country. The children ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 04 Dec 2019 11:37:00 GMT

An Orthodox Jewish rabbi hosts Syrian refugee families at his Thanksgiving table every year
This will be his fifth time hosting Syrian refugees for Thanksgiving. He hasn't kept track of how many people ... "The way they play, they figure out how to communicate so easily, and [I] think of ...
Publ.Date : Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:30:00 GMT

Chemical watchdog chief expresses confidence in Douma report
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Director-General Fernando Arias has expressed confidence in a report on Monday Nov. 25, 2019, into a deadly attack in Syria last year that has been ...
Publ.Date : Mon, 25 Nov 2019 03:02:00 GMT