Country Attempts: Organizations Aim

country attempts: The organizations, Al Fakhoora and Spark, announced Friday that their partnership is scaling up from the 600 students they were supporting in September, according to Metro News. Al Fakhoora Executive Director Farooq Burney says the expanded program will assist Syrian youngsters in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and parts of Syria. Organizations from Qatar and the Netherlands are joining forces to get 6,000 Syrian refugees into higher education courses, a move aimed at helping them integrate in the countries where they live now and rebuild their own nation if they are able to return. The organizations aim to offer spaces in academic and vocational courses in areas that will be critical once Syria's civil war ends and the shattered country attempts to rebuild. She told a meeting in The Hague on Friday that at least 4,000 schools have been destroyed since Syria's war started. 3 35 p.m. Al Fakhoora is a program of the Education Above All initiative founded by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.