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Ali Haj Suleiman

Giving Syrian students another shot at education in the northwest

Omar, 17, right, had to find work as a labourer after his school was bombed. 'I work to make a living so my family doesn't need aid,' he said [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera]

Idlib, northwest Syria – Omar al-Dabaan was 12 years old on November 24, 2018, when Syrian regime forces fired artillery rounds into his school.

The sixth grader was knocked unconscious and when he came to, he saw his friends’ bodies lying around the schoolyard where they had been playing just hours earlier.

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