Syria
Children in Syria have endured over 14 years of armed conflict. Ongoing violence as well as devastating earthquakes have left millions of Syrian children and families in a state of prolonged vulnerability, without permanent homes or access to education. War Child and our network of partners work to help children in Syria cope with the effects of armed violence, providing child protection, education and mental health and psychosocial support.
The situation for children
Following the fall of the Assad regime in 2024, millions of Syrians began returning home despite widespread damage. But services have not been able to keep pace. Many children are currently out of school and living in extreme poverty, with limited access to protective services. Alongside occasional clashes and the presence of explosive remnants of war, these challenges expose them to greater risks of injury, violence, the loss of family support networks and psychosocial distress.
Our work in Syria
Working with partners in Syria and Jordan, War Child helps children affected by conflict stay to safe, continue their education, and access vital mental health and psychosocial support.
Evidence-based Methodologies used in Syria
Play and movement-based psychosocial support
- Evidence-based
- Mental health and psychosocial support
Strengthening parent wellbeing and skills
- Evidence-based
- Mental health and psychosocial support
Closing the learning gap
- Evidence-based
- Education
Latest news from Syria
- Child protection
Children across the middle east at immediate risk as regional violence undermines systems meant to protect them
War Child is raising urgent concerns over the growing impact of war on children across the Middle East region, warning that the systems designed to protect them are being ignored.
- Mental health and psychosocial support
Decolonising informed consent in global mental health research
Despite decades of critique, many global mental health studies continue to reproduce colonial dynamics, particularly through their approach to informed consent. Too often, consent is treated as a bureaucratic formality—something to be signed once and filed away—rather than a dialogical and ongoing process.
- Education
Can’t Wait to Learn in Northeast Syria: A Fresh Chapter in Education
In Northeast Syria, thousands of children are growing up without the chance to learn. Only one in four attends school regularly. For many families, the journey to the classroom is too dangerous, too expensive, or simply out of reach. Girls often face the added weight of cultural barriers and early marriage. Children with disabilities and those displaced by conflict are left behind without the support they need.
Building a Brighter Future in Syria: Our Commitment to Children and Families in the Northwest
In a country ravaged by war and shaken by earthquakes, the “Building a Brighter Future” initiative, funded by the European Union Humanitarian Aid, in partnership with Takaful Al Sham (TAS), has provided thousands of displaced children and their families in Northwest Syria with vital education, child protection and psychosocial support service.
- Mental health and psychosocial support
Expression, Connection, and Confidence: How TeamUp Helped Blind Children in Syria Discover New Ways to Feel Joy
In Syria, a country ravaged by war and shaken by earthquakes, a group of 11 children at a school for the blind gathered weekly for moments of movement, reflection, expression, and connection using the TeamUp methodology.
- Education
Education is hope: Fuad and Amany share their journey back to the classroom in Northwest Syria
After war forced them to flee their homes in Northwest Syria, teacher Fuad and young student Amany have found their way back to the classroom with support from the Building a Brighter Future: Education and Protection Services for Crisis-Affected Children in North-West Syria project funded by the European Union’s Directorate‑General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid (DG ECHO)
