Greece In Need Of Teachers To Teach Refugee Children

Greece is currently on a hiring spree for hundreds of teachers to teach refugee children and to help educate the children who will be staying in Greece indefinitely, as other EU countries have closed their borders on the asylum seekers.

According to Save the Children NPO, the average amount of time that refugee children have been out of school is a year and a half. Even before that time period, many children were rarely able to attend classes on a regular basis due to the lack of safe places for education in their home countries. Refugee children would risk their lives to attend school in their home countries and because of the current conditions that migrants have received in the EU, children are still being left behind in the educational system. Some children as old as 10 have never learned how to write their name, let alone hold a pencil. In addition, more than a fifth of refugee children of school age have never stepped foot in a classroom.

In an effort to jump start refugee children’s education, Greece is looking to hire about 800 back-up teachers to meet the needs of the refugee community. Greece’s Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, said “The inclusion of all refugee children in the public school system will begin in September.”

Latest numbers of the refugee crisis hitting Greece puts the number of migrants trapped in Greece at around 57,000 with some one-third of that population being minors under the age of 18, a great majority of them, Syrians.

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