Tara Kavaler
Gaps in schooling could lead to irreversible damage
Rich, poor; young, old(er); Arab, Jew: Students of all stripes across the Middle East have experienced a school year like no other.
For almost a year, their learning has been disrupted by the novel coronavirus with on-again, off-again in-person classes and lessons on Zoom.
While the long-term effects of this disruption are still to be determined, experts fear irrevocable damage not just to pupils but to society as well.
I don’t feel like I’ve really been learning anything. … It’s very lonely. It’s also messy because nothing is really handled well and nothing feels serious. … The classes feel like they aren’t important
World Bank Provides Lebanon With $34M To Buy Vaccines Joshua Shuman 01/21/2021
As new infections rise in the region, Jordan announced that it is vaccinating refugees alongside the rest of the population
The World Bank approved $34 million in emergency financing to Lebanon to allow the country to purchase vaccines against the coronavirus.
Under a reallocation of funds from the Lebanon Health Resilience Project, which was launched in June 2017 to shore up the Eastern Mediterranean country’s struggling health care sector, the funds will provide the country with the ability to obtain enough vaccine doses for over two million people.
This the first time the World Bank has financed a program to fund the purchase of vaccines for a sovereign state.
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Cash assistance lessens economic pain of COVID in Jordan
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By Lilly Carlisle in Amman, Jordan
When the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Jordan back in March, Syrian refugee Tahani sat glued to the TV with her family worrying how the unfolding crisis would affect their health. But as lockdowns and other measures to contain the virus took hold, it was the economic impact of the pandemic that hit them hard.
Tahani lost her occasional work cleaning houses due to restrictions on movement and people’s growing fear of the virus. In a matter of weeks, the relative security that she and her family had spent so long working to establish since fleeing Syria nine years prior had vanished.