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STC Proud to Help Get Refugee Children Back to School

Save the Children Proud to Help Get Refugee Children Back to School

As Kiwi kids get ready to get back to school, Save the Children is gearing up to help new refugee children take their place in the classroom.

More than 1,000 people, 400 of whom are children, are coming to New Zealand this year to make a new life. Many of them are from Syria and have been languishing in refugee camps in Lebanon for over a year.

Save the Children New Zealand Chief Executive Heather Hayden says she is delighted that the charity can help children get back into education by giving them school supplies and paying for school uniforms.

“Some of these children haven’t been able to go to school for a number of years. They are desperate to get back into the classroom.”

“The start of the school year is an expensive time for any family, so by giving school supplies, uniforms and the little extras such as lunch boxes and drink bottles, which are being provided by the Warehouse and Warehouse Stationery, we hope to make it a little easier for children and their families to rebuild their lives ,”says Ms Hayden.

Save the Children will work alongside New Zealand Red Cross to make sure each refugee child who arrives in the country this year, irrespective of where they come from, gets what they need to start school.

“This is a very tangible, practical way that we can help these children who have been through incredible trauma and had their once normal lives, turned upside down,” says Ms Hayden.

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