ITWORX Education calls to bring Syrian refugee children back to school at the Syria Donors Conference

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ITWORX Education calls to bring Syrian refugee children back to school at the Syria Donors Conference

ITWORX Education, the leading education services and software solutions service provider, a division of the international software application professional services company ITWORX, backed by the EuroMena funds, was proud to get involved at the Syria Donors Conference that was held in London on February 4, 2016, where economic sector business dedicated 75$ Million through collaboration to educate Syrian children. ITWORX Education's participation came as part of its continuous efforts to much better the Syrian crisis and extend a helping hand to the Syrian refugee kids in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey, by supporting worldwide strategies to get them back into school.

ITWORX Education's commitment towards this instructional and humanitarian cause is deeply-rooted and was likewise most recently shown in collaboration with The Global Business Coalition for Education (GBC-Ed) at Davos for the World Economic Forum, late January, where over 50 personal companies from the union committed 50$ million to educate 1 million Syrian refugee kids.

At the Syria Donors Conference, donor countries pledged to provide $11 billion in supplement to Syrians by 2020 as world leaders attempted to deal with the world's worst humanitarian crisis, dealing with the financial and instructional needs of some 6 million people displaced within Syria and more than 4 million refugees in other nations. ITWORX Education, together with leaders from worldwide, NGOs and numerous others, came together and signed up with forces to find concrete options and raise considerable funding to meet the requirements for all those impacted by the Syrian crisis, in the lead approximately the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit in May. London's top targeted at Identifying long term options and attending to long-lasting needs by finding methods to create tasks and provide education for those less fortunate.

Attendees and keynote speakers consisted of distinguished figures such as Her Highness, Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser, Chair of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF); Mr. Romen Mathieu, Chairman of ITWORX and Managing Partner of the EuroMena Funds; and Mr. Anthony Lake, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Throughout his keynote address, Mr. Romen Mathieu talked about the involvement of ITWORX Education:

"If the goal is to have 1 million children back to schools by end of this schooling year, then it will be very challenging and tough. It is just difficult to build sufficient schools or prepare existing colleges and even hire big number of teachers to satisfy the requirements of countless Syrian kids. Fortunately is that it is completely possible to bring 'Education' itself to all them and at a much lower expense just through the ideal mix of efforts in between 'us'; the economic sector, the generous cash dedications and the great work of prominent NGOs". He included: "ITWORX Education is currently on track. We are enthusiastic to help Syrian refugee kids with our e-learning platform, where the devices, the content and the logistics around that are smoothly supplied, as compared to the traditional solutions expense and time".

ITWORX Education has mapped out a course of action to create virtual schools throughout strategic touch points, built around comprehensive digital material tied into curriculums, a state of the art online finding out platform (WinjiGo), and wise technology-powered knowing centers where education would be easily accessible both offline and online. This education project will run in partnership with their Excellences, Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Tom Fletcher, former UK Ambassador to Lebanon and presently Director of Global Strategy for the Global Business Coalition for Education, of which ITWORX Education is a member.

In September 2015, ITWORX Education piloted an effective virtual schooling experience with the Saad Nayel School, situated in a refugee camp in Bekaa Valley in Lebanon's Zahle' district, near the Syrian borders. Going forward, it wishes to duplicate this success for other Syrian refugee camps across the region.

Adding to this, Mr. Hatem Sallam, CEO of ITWORX Education commented:

"The dedication to put one million students back to school in 2016 is definitely doable if the contributions are made now. We anticipate support from the international community when it comes to these refugees to become active members of a genuinely knowledge-based economy, they should be equipped with the right learning and individual advancement. ITWORX Education e-learning option falls under a much broader 'school without borders' future of sorts we've envisioned for underserved communities around the world".

As a member of GBC-Ed, ITWORX Education really hopes global donors add to fund for "speed" schools to accelerate the transition back into school for Syrian refugee kids who have fallen back. By its innovative educational IT solution, the company aims to provide quality academic content through technology for schoolchildren and training product for teachers.

A Microsoft Strategic Education Partner, ITWORX Education provides end-to-end solutions to change education making use of innovation across the EMEA region that have been fulfilled with record success stories reaching over 4.5 million users. The options allow education authorities, private and public schools, colleges and higher education institutions to understand their e-learning vision.