Syrian teacher Ahmad al Hilal listens to his young pupils sitting on a mat reciting the Arabic alphabet in a makeshift school in a tent on the outskirts of a sprawling refugee camp city along the Turkish border.

Many ran for their lives with their mothers under <a href="https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=006054055338965708568:09spwrlibei&amp;q=https://www.wionews.com/opinions/deportation-to-syria-could-mean-death-for-women-children-and-lgbtq-refugees-in-turkey-257678&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjOrdeC1YrnAhVfH7cAHQ5GA_EQFjAAegQIBBAC&amp;usg=AOvVaw0UrcWHhx6jS0dczqoN-0jD">heavy aerial bombing</a> by&nbsp;Russian jets that paralysed day-to-day life and damaged dozens of schools and hospitals.

Now, already enduring the difficult winter conditions in the camp, where many <a href="https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=006054055338965708568:09spwrlibei&amp;q=https://www.wionews.com/videos/families-from-mosul-find-shelter-in-syrian-refugee-camp-1110&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjOrdeC1YrnAhVfH7cAHQ5GA_EQFjAEegQIAhAC&amp;usg=AOvVaw2amE0fNqwAkpyJgwSOOTh9">tents get flooded</a>, the children huddle on the floor, learning how to read with scraps of paper and pencils.

"These kids suffer from illiteracy. They don't read or write. They have no one to help them," said Hilal, who teaches over 140 young Syrians in three tents scattered across several large <a href="https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=006054055338965708568:09spwrlibei&amp;q=https://www.wionews.com/videos/families-from-mosul-find-shelter-in-syrian-refugee-camp-1110&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjOrdeC1YrnAhVfH7cAHQ5GA_EQFjAEegQIAhAC&amp;usg=AOvVaw2amE0fNqwAkpyJgwSOOTh9">overcrowded camps</a> on the outskirts of the border town of Azaz.

Women and children form a majority of more than 350,000 people who have fled the renewed assault since December that has pushed deeper into Syria's opposition-run bastion in the northwest, according to the United Nations.

“We came here as refugees, there are no more schools because of the airstrikes, so we haven’t been going to school but we’re studying in the camp here," said 14-year-old pupil Khaled, who did not give a family name.

Hilal was himself uprooted from his town of Abu Dahur in Idlib province after the army, backed by pro-Iranian militias seized it.

"We bought some books and parts of the Koran and now teach them inside the camp," said Hilal, 48, who was a teacher before the conflict that began almost nine years ago.

Syrian teacher Ahmad al Hilal listens to his young pupils sitting on a mat reciting the Arabic alphabet in a makeshift school in a tent on the outskirts of a sprawling refugee camp city along the Turkish border.

Syrian teacher Ahmad al Hilal listens to his young pupils sitting on a mat reciting the Arabic alphabet in a makeshift school in a tent on the outskirts of a sprawling refugee camp city along the Turkish border. Many ran for their lives with their mothers under heavy aerial bombing by Russian jets that paralysed day-to-day life and damaged dozens of schools and hospitals. Now, already enduring the difficult winter conditions in the camp, where many tents get flooded, the children huddle on the floor, learning how to read with scraps of paper and pencils. "These kids suffer from illiteracy. They don't read or write. They have no one to help them," said Hilal, who teaches over 140 young Syrians in three tents scattered across several large overcrowded camps on the outskirts of the border town of Azaz. Women and children form a majority of more than 350,000 people who have fled the renewed assault since December that has pushed deeper into Syria's opposition-run bastion in the northwest, according to the United Nations. “We came here as refugees, there are no more schools because of the airstrikes, so we haven’t been going to school but we’re studying in the camp here," said 14-year-old pupil Khaled, who did not give a family name. Hilal was himself uprooted from his town of Abu Dahur in Idlib province after the army, backed by pro-Iranian militias seized it. "We bought some books and parts of the Koran and now teach them inside the camp," said Hilal, 48, who was a teacher before the conflict that began almost nine years ago.

Having fled bombing, Syrian children learn to read in borderland tent schools

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Having fled bombing, Syrian children learn to read in borderland tent schools