Education is a privilege, but in the United States we don’t necessarily treat it as one and most would rather sleep or skip class. In other countries, some people can’t get a proper education and would wish for nothing more than to be in school. According to On Women’s Day, take the next step for girls’ education, written by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, for many Syrian children, “getting an education is a matter of life and death.” Even with this striking impression the “international aid to education has fallen from 12 to 10%” and has left many feeling helpless.

Even with this discouraging statistic, there are still some who are advocating for better education and specifically education for refugees. In a video on Malala’s Fight for Education, reported by Jomana Karadsheh, Malala Yousafzai, a young, Nobel Peace Prize Winner opened an all girls school in Lebanon for Syrian refugees. She is “providing secondary education and skills training for two hundred Syrian girls” and advocating for those who seem to be “ignored.” With activists like Malala, the fight for education seems to grow brighter and advocating for those who need help seems louder.