'Give them back their childhood': Why education is crucial for refugee children
 

'Give them back their childhood': Why education is crucial for refugee children
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When the harrowing photo of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi's lifeless body went viral in 2015, it galvanized the world to start paying attention and talk about the refugee crisis with earnest.

One year later, public discourse on refugees is arguably more frequent and nuanced — but the crisis is far from over. There are still at least 65.3 million people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes around the world, 21.3 million of whom are refugees. Half of those refugees are children, like Kurdi.

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