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UAE residents and trekking partners Olga, 27, a commodities trainer and Mohamad, 30, export manager, are 'stepping up' their efforts to make dreams of Syrian kids a reality.
Around six months ago, Emirates Red Crescent volunteers opened a small learning centre in Dubai Festival City for kids who recently came from Syria. Most of the kids have missed years of education and were unable to enter the local schools.
The duo that believes strongly in giving back to the society will be climbing the highest peak in South America - Mount Aconcagua - to create awareness about this temporary school. They will begin their 20 days climb on February 12.
Since the learning centre is running on donations and volunteers' support, they are constantly in need of basic stationery items - notebooks, A4 papers, colorful pens, pencils, sketching books and etc. - Mohamad and Olga have also started a stationery campaign so that everyone can become a part of this by donating whatever stationery items they can give to these kids.
Explaining how the centre works, Olga told Khaleej Times: "The idea of this centre that has enrolled 120 Syrian socially displaced kids is to teach kids basic knowledge and adaptation to allow them to pass the entry exams and be accepted to the UAE schools. It is a tough and intense one-year programme, both academically and socially. These children have lost their parents, their homes, their country to the war. But one thing they all haven't lost is the hope for better life."
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