Gordon Brown is the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; UN Special Envoy for Global Education. Najib Azmi Mikati is the Prime Minister of Lebanon https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/gordon-brown-and-najib-azmi-mikati/rss en Displacement Education Human Rights Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Gordon Brown and Najib Azmi Mikati https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2014/02/07/an-urgent-plea-for-syrian-refugee-children-in-lebanon https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2014/02/07/an-urgent-plea-for-syrian-refugee-children-in-lebanon BEIRUT – In the village of Akroum, in the northeast corner of Lebanon close to the Syrian border, a unique experiment is taking hundreds of Syrian refugee children off the streets and into school.