Street Children in Lebanon…

When I turned on my phone today after returning from India to Lebanon, I found it buzzing with whatsapp messages from some of my young Syrian refugee friends who shine shoes on the streets of Beirut. A new study by UNICEF and Save the Children International reports that there are now over 1,500 street children working on the streets of Lebanon–a large percentage of whom are illiterate. According to the shoe-shiner kids I know in Beirut, there’s nothing they want more than to return to school in Syria–even though they’ve fallen years behind in their education because of the war…