A Generation with No Education: Iraq's major problem.

Over 2.5 million people are internally displaced by the ongoing conflict and they need help now more than ever. It would not be a stretch to describe the situation for ordinary Iraqis as dire and as time goes on, the circumstances are not improving. Both uprooted families and the communities hosting them have few services that are functioning. There are pressing needs in all essential services including water, shelter, sanitation, food, health care and work opportunities. Women and children are especially vulnerable. Violence against them is on the rise and they are suffering in all sorts of ways as a result of the deteriorating health and education systems.
Schools that are open are strained beyond capacity. In areas with huge influxes of internally displaced people, students now have to go to classes in shifts. What this means it that children are now getting little more than three hours of schooling a day, in classrooms with as many as 60 pupils. The reality for many of the kids is even if they are attending school, they have very little opportunity to learn.
the major concern is that the longer kids are out of school, the less likely they will return and that’s a situation that we want to avoid. Children who drop out of school or can’t go because of violence are missing out on the only social and emotional support systems available to them. Among other things, they will have fewer work opportunities down the line.
there’s going to be a generation of children who missed out on primary and secondary education. That’s going to have a major impact on Iraq’s future recovery. Despite the fact that they are living in abysmal conditions, the vast majority of displaced Iraqis do not want to return to their communities out of fear of the violence that awaits them. Many of the displaced have had family members killed as a result of sectarian violence or have witnessed events too horrible to recount. Their fear is genuine and runs deep. Also, many of their homes have either been destroyed or occupied by other families since fleeing, so they don’t necessarily have anywhere to return to.Resolving the Iraqi refugee and displacement crisis could take up to 10 years, predicted Abdul-Khaliq Zankana, head of the Iraqi government's Migration and Displacement Committee, last month. In the meantime, recommended Zankana, the government should dedicate 5 percent of the country's oil revenues to helping displaced Iraqis.