Photos & Videos, Transition | March 7, 2014, 5:14 pm

Photoblog: Despite Bombardment, a School Celebrates in Aleppo

The Martyr Abdel Qader Shasho school in Aleppo’s Salaheddine neighborhood held a celebration in honor of those students that passed their first semester on February 13, 2014.

The Salaheddine Revolutionaries’ Council, made up of a group of opposition civil society activists, helped organize the celebration despite the difficulties. The area, very close to the battlefront, has been relatively quiet lately, having been spared the heavy shelling by explosive barrels that other areas of Aleppo have been subjected to, given the neighborhood’s proximity to regime military outposts.

Damascus Bureau correspondent Ammar Abdullah visited the school and took these photos on February 13.

The children wait for the beginning of the festivities.

The children find joy in small things as violence occurs daily around them.

A child chants along with revolutionary slogans during the celebration.

This child, among the top performers in his class, pretends his balloons are weapons.

The students receive gifts for their achievements.

A child gives her teacher a kiss.

The teaching staff gifts to the children.

A student performs a sad song.

One child has not yet received her gift.

A teacher helps one of her students open her juice box.

A group photo of the top students.

One child tries to blow up a small balloon with all his might.

Colours help bring joy to hard times.

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