Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge shows us a Gaza school working to educate kids amidst an ongoing war.
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00:00Students singing and dancing with their teachers.
00:06Normal school time activities during an extremely abnormal time.
00:10This makeshift school is an effort to provide young children in Gaza with some form of education
00:17amidst the ongoing war.
00:19It's funded by the Omani Endowment Fund for Distance Education.
00:23Reuters reports since the war began, Gaza's estimated 625,000 school-aged children have
00:30been unable to attend classes.
00:32The region traditionally boasts internationally high literacy rates, despite an under-resourced
00:37education system.
00:39The teachers in these tense-turned classrooms aim to allow area children to continue their
00:44studies.
00:45According to members, the school is able to accommodate up to 1,800 students between the
00:50first and fourth grade.
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