Rural Damascus-SANA
An active restoration and rehabilitation movement is taking place in 13 schools that were damaged by terrorism in the Nabek area in Damascus countryside, to be ready at the beginning of the new school year to receive more than 6,000 students.
SANA monitored the restoration work carried out by the Damascus Countryside Education Directorate in cooperation with the local community, where the supervisor of the educational complex in Nabek Nouf Arab clarified that the restoration work is in its final stages and included 13 schools out of 25 in the area and began about a month and a half ago, and includes the restoration of structural damage to the walls and a dam. The gaps created by construction, installing doors and windows, painting, rehabilitating the fence and external walls of schools, and rehabilitating toilets to be ready at the beginning of the school year.
Arab indicated that the capacity of the 13 schools distributed between first, second and secondary cycles ranges between 500 and 600 students per school.
School restoration work was launched as part of a local community initiative entitled “Together, Al-Nabek is better,” and that next year, during the summer vacation, it will include the rest of the area’s schools, according to engineer Nada Barakat, the supervisor of the Nabek area in the School Buildings Department of the Damascus Countryside Education Directorate.
Barakat explained that during the years of the terrorist war on Syria, some schools were vandalized and sustained significant damage, prompting the Education Directorate to develop a regular plan to repair these damages with the participation of the local community.
Among the supervisors of the rehabilitation and restoration of schools, Eng. Majd Smid said that some schools were suffering from significant damage to the infrastructure as a result of terrorist acts, and work was completed step by step to restore them completely with the fence and the facade.
It established the “Together Al-Nabek is Better” initiative with a gathering of more than 200 men from the Nabek area, and it aims, according to engineer Nimr Khalaf, one of its participants, to help educate the countryside of Damascus during its work on renovating schools in order to provide a suitable environment for students to do their best and excel.
Principal of the Martyr Issam Nasrallah School for Boys, Ibtisam Bahbouh, pointed out that the school was built since 1950 and has been vandalized and damaged by terrorism, which necessitated the need to rehabilitate it.
Rehab Ali and Malik Abdo
