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Humanitarian workers say illiteracy is spreading fast in refugee communities, with tens of thousands of displaced Iraqi children getting little or no education.
Miret el Naggar / MCT
Iraqi clowns perform for displaced Iraqi children at a charity organization in Damascus, Syria.
Miret el Naggar / MCT
Bahram al Zuhairy, 10, poses in his school uniform at the one-room apartment he shares with five other members of his family. Though he has two other school-age siblings, the family can only afford to educate one.
Hannah Allam / MCT
Azhar al Haidari, 47, center, is an Iraqi refugee in Damascus, Syria. While her two daughters, Inam, left, and Mary, are excelling in school, their older brothers are illiterate because they've been out of class for so long.
Hannah Allam / MCT
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