{"id":32314,"date":"2016-02-24T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T22:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=32314"},"modified":"2016-02-24T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T22:30:02","slug":"a-tale-of-two-cities-how-education-trumps-war-in-chicago-and-reyhanli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/a-tale-of-two-cities-how-education-trumps-war-in-chicago-and-reyhanli\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two cities: how education trumps war in Chicago and Reyhanli"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Aryn Braun<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are lots of Syrians in Chicago like me, second-generation Syrians,\u201d says Samia Akhras, 24, of Chicago\u2019s growing Syrian Community.<\/p>\n

But Chicago isn\u2019t home. Chicago isn\u2019t Syria.<\/p>\n

Syrian-Americans, like Akhras and her family, are constantly reminded of the violence and upheaval that is everyday life in the Syrian Arab Republic. Akhras\u2019 voice, normally lilting with enthusiasm, is grave and quiet when she talks about Syria\u2019s constant turmoil and the danger her family members still face back in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was and it still is, really brutal,\u201d Akhras says. \u201cEvery couple of months, every major event, I always think \u2018That\u2019s the worst thing that could ever happen. What could be worse?\u2019 Then a couple months later a chemical weapon gets dropped, or a school gets bombed by Russia and ISIS is now in control of several cities throughout Syria.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s just never-ending pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Starting\u00a0Feb. 27, the United States and Russia will enter into a ceasefire\u00a0in\u00a0Syria. Announced by Secretary of State John Kerry earlier this month, the ceasefire is an attempt to halt the pervasive violence of the past five years, which, according to the United Nations, has resulted in the deaths of at least 250,000 Syrians and displaced 12 million more.<\/p>\n

Faced with the reality of a deteriorating Syrian state, and the frustration of feeling helpless to support her country through whatever comes next, Akhras turned to the non-profit sector. In 2014, she began\u00a0interning at the Karam Foundation, run by fellow Chicagoan and Syrian-American, Lina Sergie Attar.<\/p>\n

Started in 2007 out of Attar\u2019s Chicago home, the Karam Foundation originally set out to fund human rights projects all over the world, but switched gears in 2011 to focus specifically on Syria as the conflict worsened.<\/p>\n

Today the foundation places a huge emphasis on education, and what access to good schools can mean for children displaced by the conflict. That\u2019s where Akhras comes in.<\/p>\n

In her two and a half years with the Foundation, Akhras\u2014now director of development\u2014has been to Turkey twice, participating in Karam\u2019s well-known Zeitouna program. Zeitouna, which means olive tree in Arabic, tries to live up to its name, bringing 40 volunteers from all over the world to Reyhanli (Ray-HAN-lee), Turkey, at least once a year to facilitate educational programming in local primary schools.<\/p>\n

Reyhanli is a border town, situated roughly three miles from the Syrian border. According to Akhras, it\u2019s home to nearly 60,000 Syrians searching for an alternative to the violence they\u2019ve become used to. Through Zeitouna and the Karam Leadership Program, geared toward Syrian teenagers, Akhras and her peers try to help children work through any trauma they\u2019ve experienced while providing them with an outlet to just be kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been following the cause for a very long time. I know what these people have been through,\u201d Akhras says. \u201cI know what these children have been though, and after five years a lot of them don\u2019t even remember Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only things that they remember are really loud sounds, bombs, and they remember fleeing and that\u2019s it. They don\u2019t remember the happiness, or they don\u2019t remember the memories that they had in their hometown, or the schools that\u2019s they went to or the way that they lived before.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May of 2013, Reyhanli was rocked by two deadly car bombings\u00a0within 15 minutes\u00a0of each other. The blasts killed more than 50 and wounded close to 150 more, straining the already combative relationship between the Turkish government and the Assad regime.<\/p>\n

Akhras\u2019 voice tightened. It got harder for her to string a sentence together. She paused, took a breath and steadied herself: \u201cThese children, they re-establish my goals and my hope,\u201d she says, laughing between words. \u201cYou know, I\u2019m really bad at describing the way I feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Out of school adolescents in Syria (Ages 10 to 14)<\/h2>\n

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The number of out of school adolescents increased 485 percent from 2012 to 2013 to close to one million children. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (Aryn Braun\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n

In 2013 there were close to one million Syrian adolescents, ages 10 to 14, out of school. That\u2019s up nearly 485 percent from 2012, according to\u00a0UNESCO<\/a>. Without the most recent data, there\u2019s no telling how high that number is in 2016. Many factors contribute to falling enrollment rates: displacement, lack of funding and especially gender.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur mission, The Karam Foundation, we can\u2019t solve the situation, but we can alleviate the pain for the people who have lost literally everything and help them pick up their lives,\u201d Akhras says.<\/p>\n

And while Karam\u00a0finds ways to help Syrian children in Turkish schools, GirlFoward, a Chicago organization devoted to helping assimilate refugee girls, aids families who have made the journey to the U.S. in their attempts to start over.<\/p>\n

Ashley Marine, GirlForward\u2019s program director, shares Akhras\u2019 concerns about refugee children falling behind in school, especially young girls.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur girls have had limited access to education,\u201d Marine says. \u201cAt one point at GirlForward, this was last summer\u2019s poll, the average amount of time spent in schools was two years before coming to the United States, and these are girls who are 14 or 15 years old. So they\u2019ve had two years of formal schooling before coming here and entering into a ninth-grade classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

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GirlForward mentors and mentees at a Feb. 18 screening of Difret, a film about a kidnapped Ethiopian girl facing forced marriage, hosted by Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law. (Hannah Gebresilassie\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marine is constantly interrupted by interns coming in early to help set up for that night\u2019s event, or girls dropping by to start on that day\u2019s homework.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan we pause for a second?\u201d Marine asks, distracted by someone tapping at the window.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a woman who heard about a fire that drove a newly arrived Syrian refugee family out of their Rogers Park apartment. She came by to drop off a gift card so the family can replace some of their lost belongings. There are heaps of blankets and clothing on a desk nearby. Marine points to the mound of fabric. It\u2019s also for the family, donations from Chicagoans who heard about the fire.<\/p>\n

Of the 100 girls GirlFoward serves in its annual programming, most hail from\u00a0Iraq, Bhutan, Burma, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but Syrian numbers are growing as more families are resettled in Chicago. Illinois\u2019 refugee population is largely from those same six countries, with 45 Syrian refugees resettled in the state in the past four months, according to the State Department\u2019s Refugee Processing Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve only resettled a nominal number of Syrian families here in the city of Chicago so far. That will change,\u201d Marine says. I think the small number of Middle Eastern girls we serve is not a testament to the numbers of people. We\u2019re disproportionately serving Middle Eastern girls at a lower number, at a lower rate, and we\u2019re starting to ask why.\u201d<\/p>\n

GirlForward\u2019s mentees graduate from the program when they graduate from high school, a feat worth celebrating for girls who may come to Chicago without friends, English-language skills or time to devote to their studies.<\/p>\n

Marine continually emphasizes how important the social aspect of schooling is to assimilating teenage girls to a new country. According to Marine, who holds a master\u2019s degree in social service administration from the University of Chicago, it\u2019s the isolation that is most dangerous to academic and social development.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they\u2019re the oldest girl in the family they are going to be responsible for cooking, for cleaning, for caregiving of their siblings, for translating for their parents,\u201d Marine says. \u201cThose activities are keeping them in their house, so accessing programs outside of their homes can be very challenging for refugee girls.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of them are watching their siblings 24\/7 while their parents are working two or three jobs to support their families,\u201d Marine says. \u201cSo that increases their isolation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Akhras and Marine focus on different populations of students, both view education as key to a successful future for Syrian refugees, whether that\u2019s in Reyhanli, Turkey or Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re children. They\u2019re innocent and very, very bright kids that need extra support,\u201d says a joyful-sounding Akhras. \u201cThey need a little bit more love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: This map, hanging on the wall of GirlForward’s program center in Edgewater, shows Chicago connected by string to each refugee girl’s home country. (Aryn Braun\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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