Killi (Syria): Online education is spreading in the camps of Idlib as displaced Syrians are trying to get to grips with social distancing to forestall a potentially devastating coronavirus outbreak.
After almost ten years of war, many children have missed out on some schooling anyway.
But there might be a silver lining for Tariq al-Abeej, a father of two girls.
He partly welcomes online schooling because this way he gets to spend more time with his children.
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The camp teacher records lessons with a phone and posts them on a WhatsApp group, for the children to do their homework and send it back to him.
Aid agencies have warned that an outbreak could be catastrophic in Idlib as years of war have devastated the medical infrastructure and social distancing is hard to practise in the overcrowded displacement camps.
Some three million people are crammed into Idlib, the last rebel-controlled province in Syria.
About a million people were displaced in the early months of the year in the wake of a Russian-backed government offensive.
(With inputs from AP)
