Omnia Arfin

World Press Photo

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A student at the Tawasol School.

An entrance to the school is decorated for the Eid celebrations.

Children enjoy free time with their teacher.

Musical instruments hang on the wall of a classroom.

The children help to make models of new buildings at the request of companies.

The neighborhood around the Tawasol School, in Istabl Antar.

Girls do breathing exercises during music class

Children take a nap during class, tired after helping out with housework at home.

The students in one of the classes.

The students work together on a loom, one of the ways they make money from what they produce at school.

The school also provides a psychotherapy sessions for the children who have aggressive behaviours or suffering at their homes.

Students around their teacher in the literacy class.

Some children get ready to go shopping for the Eid celebrations, when the school provides their winter and summer clothes.

Children walk behind the school minibus.

The teacher with students went shopping before Eid celebration.

Norhan, 13, looks out over the Establ Antar neighborhood.

Norhan’s sister walks down the stairway in the family’s building. She helps her mother working as a household cleaner and collecting leftover bread, which they leave to dry for use in cooking.

Norhan’s father leans on a window sill in his home. He is worried about being able to care for his family, having lost his job after injuring his leg.