The Clooney Foundation for Justice has announced a $2.25 million (1.9 million euro) partnership, which includes a donation from Google and a million dollar technology grant from HP, to support formal education for Syrian refugees in Lebanon which has the world’s highest per capita refugee population.
The partnership with UNICEF will help seven public schools to provide education opportunities to nearly 3,000 currently out-of-school refugee students this school year. It will also support a pilot of technology tools in these schools to advance learning outcomes for refugee children and Lebanese youth.
“Thousands of young Syrian refugees are at risk — the risk of never being a productive part of society,” George and Amal Clooney said. “Formal education can help change that. That’s our goal with this initiative. We don’t want to lose an entire generation because they had the bad luck of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time.”