Waiting outside the UNHCR Iraqi registration center on the outskirts of Damascus, Khalid, a middle-age Iraqi father of four from Ramadi, points to his family and declares: “We don’t know what the future will bring.” Over the past eight months he has relocated twice between Iraq and Syria. In the moves from one county to another and the daily struggle to make ends meet, his children’s education has fallen by the wayside. “We don’t have a permanent home now, so my children haven’t been able to go to school,” he said. “Without an education, what is their future?” For a growing Iraqi refugee population — most of whom are living off dwindling savings or remittances from family members abroad — covering the daily necessities of life is an all encompassing concern. As the conflict in their homeland drags on, however, the absence of a formal education among the numerous refugee
