Projects
Since 2017, the Free State of Saxony has been funding school classes for some 800 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon.
The Arche noVa association facilitates school classes in Lebanon for Syrian children living in refugee camps there. Lebanon, which is no larger than Saxony and has a population of 6 million Lebanese, is home to 1.5 million Syrian refugees.
A total of approximately 800 children are receiving primary-school education as part of the project. The teaching staff consists of around 40 persons, most of whom also fled Syria. The project began in April 2017. Saxony has been facilitating the classes ever since, providing some 250,000 euros in funding for this every year. And the school certificates are recognised by the Lebanese government. The Lebanese 'Social Support Society for Education', which raises approximately half the project costs, is the local partner.
State Minister Oliver Schenk visited the project in 2018.
German Government and Federal States Programme (Bund-Länder-Programm)
In 2015, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ) established the German Government and Federal States Programme (Bund-Länder-Programm), which enables the Free State of Saxony to carry out a larger project together with the GIZ (German Society for International Co-Operation) and partner countries in the Global South.
