This Taiwanese Woman Started A Project To Help Syrian Children In A Besieged Refugee Camp Go To School

Meet Lara Tseng, a Taiwanese woman who started a project in a near inaccessible refugee camp in Syria to help children go to school.

The Small School Support Project works to provide educational materials and financial aid for teachers and students inside Rukban camp a displacement camp situated near Syria's border with Jordan, where no can get in or out and aid rarely gets in as Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime placing it under siege and Jordan closing its borders.

“Some people will say, ‘Why are you helping people so far away? You can’t see them. You don’t know them. Why don’t you help kids in Taiwan instead?” Tseng told Almost. “Isn’t this that we can all become better together?”

“You can’t become what you don’t know,” Tseng said. “So I think why education is so important is that it lets us see all sorts of infinite possibilities.”

”Without education, you just can’t see it. If you can’t see, you can’t become.
And then change is not possible,” she added.

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