Syria: A potential disaster
Matthew Hay Brown, for the Pulitzer Center
Damascus, Syria
Of Mustafa Hamad's 10 children, seven are old enough to go to school. Only four do.
The Iraqi Kurd, who brought his family here from Baghdad last year, is surviving on assistance from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and remittances from a brother-in-law who lives in Britain. He says he can't afford school fees for three of his daughters.