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This year, �鶹APP is��celebrating not only children, but the people who help them to grow and reach their potential.��

In a new video, we��meet��Yola Ibrahim, a teacher at the��Mtein��School in Lebanon who, thanks to a���鶹APP project, was able to teach her pupils remotely when Covid-19 forced schools to shut.����

�鶹APP�With Covid-19 we faced a crisis. We were required to teach��online��but we had no idea how,�鶹APP� she says.

Yola��is one of several teachers��at the school��who��were taught��how to move her lessons online��by �鶹APP’s local partner, DOT Lebanon.����

Among them was Yola�鶹APP�s pupil Majd el-Halabi. His mother Jihan, like millions of parents around the world, feared that her son�鶹APP�s education would suffer after Covid-19 forced schools to shut.�� ��

But thanks to �鶹APP�鶹APP�s support, which continues today, Majd is thriving and doing well at school.����

�鶹APP�It�鶹APP�s not my job to just teach the basic things. It is important for the child to feel I am connecting with them,�鶹APP� says Yola. �鶹APP�This is the most important message for a teacher: you need to communicate with children with love.�鶹APP���

Parents also received training sessions on how to support their children at home and hundreds of devices were delivered to pupils to learn remotely.��

�鶹APP�鶹APP�s Tech Hub programme in Lebanon is funded by the players of People’s Postcode Lottery.����

For almost a decade, �鶹APP has been supporting children in Lebanon, including many refugees from Syria who were forced to flee their homes because of the civil war.����

We helped launch the ground-breaking��double-shift system��that allowed Syrian students to use Lebanese schools after Lebanese children had gone home in the early afternoon. We presented a plan to the United Nations General Assembly and the approach was taken up by the Lebanese government. The system is still in operation today, helping more than 300,000 refugees in Lebanon to receive an education.